Low dislocation density GaAs on Si heteroepitaxy with atomic hydrogen irradiation for optoelectronic integration
- 1 June 1993
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 73 (11) , 7376-7384
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.354029
Abstract
Basic experimental results obtained for the low-temperature molecular beam epitaxy with atomic hydrogen have been presented. GaAs films grown at different substrate temperatures have exhibited different values of dislocation densities and the average dislocation density as low as 3×104 cm−2 has been successfully obtained for the films grown at a low-temperature of 330 °C with atomic hydrogen irradiation. These are among the lowest dislocation values reported to date. The surface cleaning effects and reconstruction of vicinal Si(100) surfaces during the atomic hydrogen irradiation, and also the electrical properties of epitaxial films have been investigated and analyzed. Physics behind the drastic dislocation density reduction has been investigated in detail based on the results of cross-sectional and plan-view transmission electron microscope observations and analysis of the growth kinetics.This publication has 23 references indexed in Scilit:
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