Abstract
The fabrication of high quality strain-relaxed thin SiGe layers on ion implanted Si substrates was discussed. SiGe layers with thickness of 100 nm were grown on the implanted substrates by solid source molecular beam epitaxy (SSMBE) at 500 °C. X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis was used to measure the strain relaxation ratio. It was observed that the surface of the SiGe layer was very smooth with a rms roughness of 0.34 nm and relaxation ratio of more than 80%. The film was found to be relaxed by ion-implantation induced defects and confined near the heterointerface that resulted in a dislocation free SiGe surface.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 2514-2516 |
Number of pages | 3 |
Journal | Applied Physics Letters |
Volume | 85 |
Issue number | 13 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2004 Sep 27 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)