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Influence Of Substrate Off-Cut On The Defect Structure In Relaxed Graded Si-Ge/Si Layers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2011

Srikanth B. Samavedam ,
F. Romanato ,
M. S. Goorsky  and
E. A. Fitzgerald
Srikanth B. Samavedam
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139
F. Romanato
Affiliation:
INFM-Department of Physics “G. Galilei”, University of Padova, via Marzolo 8, Padova, Italy
M. S. Goorsky
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095
E. A. Fitzgerald
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139
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Abstract

Relaxed graded Si-Ge/Si layers can be used in a variety of micro-electronics applications such as templates for III-V/Si integration, in high speed field effect transistor (FET) structures and as detectors in optical communication. Each of these applications requires a different final Ge concentration in the graded Si-Ge layer. With increasing Ge content in the graded layer, some of the materials concerns that need to be addressed are- (i) a high surface roughness, (ii) the formation of dislocation pile-ups, and (iii) an increase in the threading dislocation density. We have shown that there is a substantial improvement in the surface roughness and the dislocation pile-up density of the graded Si-Ge layers by depositing on (001) 6° off-cut substrates. The substrate miscut also facilitates favorable intersections of {111} planes that aid reactions between the 60° dislocations to form edge dislocations with Burgers vectors of the type 1/2<110> and <100> resulting in a novel hexagonal dislocation structure. Such reactions occurred more readily in the Ge-rich regions of the graded layers where the growth temperature was high enough to aid dislocation climb. The edge dislocations with in-plane Burgers vectors lack a tilt component and the decreased rate of tilting in the Ge-rich regions is confirmed by triple crystal X-ray reciprocal space maps. This novel dislocation structure offers opportunities to explore new processes which may eliminate spatially variant strain fields in relaxed epitaxial layers.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 442: Symposium E – Defects in Electronic Materials II , 1996 , 343
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1997

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