Effect of misfit strain on physical properties of InGaP grown by metalorganic molecular-beam epitaxy
- 1 July 1990
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 68 (1) , 107-111
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.347100
Abstract
The effects of misfit strain on physical properties (lattice parameters, photoluminescence, and electron mobility) are discussed for In1−xGaxP epilayers with a constant thickness of around 0.75 μm grown by metalorganic molecular-beam epitaxy on GaAs(001) substrates. The elastic accommodation of misfit strain is observed in the analysis of lattice parameters and energy-band-gap shift. Tensile strain is relaxed more easily than the compressive strain. Theoretical predictions of critical thickness for elastic-strain accommodation and of energy-band-gap shift agree well with experimental results. The energy-band-gap shift and electron mobility are relatively insensitive to dislocations generated by relaxation of the misfit strain.This publication has 19 references indexed in Scilit:
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