A detailed experimental study of the wet oxidation kinetics of AlxGa1−xAs layers
- 15 October 1995
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 78 (8) , 5201-5203
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.360736
Abstract
We have studied the oxidation in water vapor of thick (0.5–2 μm) AlGaAs layers with aluminum contents ranging from 48% to 78% grown by molecular beam epitaxy. The oxidation rate was measured as a function of the aluminum content, the temperature and the flow rate of the N2 carrier gas supplying the water vapor. The oxide films proved to be mechanically very stable and the growth was found to be linear with time also in the case of an excessive supply of water vapor. The activation energies for the wet oxidation of AlGaAs were determined to increase from 1.1 to 1.8 eV for the Al contents decreasing from 78% to 48%.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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