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Low Temperature Growth of Group II–A Fluoride Layers on Silicon as Buffer for Heteroepitaxial IV–VI and II–VI Compound Semiconductors

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 February 2011

S. Blunier ,
H. Zogg ,
A. N. Tiwari ,
C. Maissen ,
H. Weibel ,
T. Hoshino  and
S. Theodoropol
S. Blunier
Affiliation:
AFIF at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
H. Zogg
Affiliation:
AFIF at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
A. N. Tiwari
Affiliation:
AFIF at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
C. Maissen
Affiliation:
AFIF at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
H. Weibel
Affiliation:
AFIF at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
T. Hoshino
Affiliation:
AFIF at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
S. Theodoropol
Affiliation:
AFIF at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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Abstract

We present our new development of low temperature (<450°C) MBE growth of group II-a fluorides on Si (111) and infrared sensor fabrication in Pb1−xSnxSe grown on such fluoride layers. The stacked CaF2-BaF2 buffer helps to overcome the large lattice and thermal mismatch between the Si-substrate and the narrow gap chalcogenide. Despite a rather nominal quality of the low temperature grown CaF2 layer, the 200nm thick epitaxial BaF2 top layer is of good structural perfection as judged from RBS channelling yield, RHEED-patterns and microscopy. The fluoride buffers were successfully overgrown with Pb1−xSnxSe and small IR-sensor arrays with up to 10.5μm cut-off wavelength were fabricated in the layers. The performance of these sensors is as good as for sensors fabricated with the high temperature buffer layer growth process.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 220: Symposium B – Silicon Molecular Beam Epitaxy , 1991 , 531
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1991

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