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Nucleation and Heterointerface Structure of InAs Epilayers Grown on InP Substrates

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2011

K. S. Chandra Sekhar
Affiliation:
Department of Materials and Nuclear Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742
A. K. Ballal
Affiliation:
Department of Materials and Nuclear Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742
L. Salamanca-Riba
Affiliation:
Department of Materials and Nuclear Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742
D. L. Partin
Affiliation:
Physics Department, General Motors Research Laboratory, MI 48090–9055
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Abstract

Heteroepitaxial growth of indium arsenide films on indium phosphide substrates is being actively pursued since the electronic properties of these films make them promising materials for optoelectronic and other high speed devices. The various structural aspects of the film that affect their electronic properties are structural defects like dislocations, film-substrate interface roughness and chemical inhomogeneities. In InAs films, electrons accumulate at the film-air interface, making surface morphology an important factor that decides the electronic properties. The InAs films used in this study were grown on InP substrates by metal organic vapor deposition, at different temperatures. A higher growth temperature not only resulted in poor surface morphology of the film, but also created a rough film-substrate interface. However, at all deposition temperatures, the film-substrate interfaces are sharp. At lower growth temperature, the interfaces were flat. Films grown at lower temperatures had good surface morphology and a flat and shaip heterointerface.

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1993

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