Horn-von Hoegen, Michael; Müller, B.H.; Al Falou, A.:
Strain relief by micro roughness in surfactant mediated growth of Ge on Si(001)
In: Physical Review B : Condensed matter and materials physics, Jg. 50 (1994), Heft 16, S. 11640 - 11652
1994Artikel/Aufsatz in Zeitschrift
Physik (inkl. Astronomie)Fakultät für Physik » Experimentalphysik
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Titel:
Strain relief by micro roughness in surfactant mediated growth of Ge on Si(001)
Autor*in:
Horn-von Hoegen, MichaelUDE
GND
1201039908
LSF ID
10366
ORCID
0000-0003-0324-3457ORCID iD
Sonstiges
der Hochschule zugeordnete*r Autor*in
;
Müller, B.H.;Al Falou, A.
Erscheinungsjahr:
1994

Abstract:

The deliberate use of surfactants during the growth of Ge on Si(001) prevents the formation of three-dimensional clusters and allows the deposition of continuous and smooth Ge films. This, however, is not valid for the regime of strained film growth prior to the generation of misfit-relieving defects. Using Sb as the surfactant, an 8-ML-thick pseudomorphic Ge film exhibits a pronounced microroughness on an angstrom scale. The average terrace width is only ∼10 Å. Up to 4–5 vertical layers are simultaneously visible at the surface. This microroughness allows the Ge atoms (which are under compressive stress) to relieve lattice-misfit-related strain by partial lateral relaxation towards their bulk lattice constant. This would not be possible for a flat and continuous film. Now the microrough surface is energetically favored and the influence of the growth kinetics is therefore observed in an increase of the roughness with temperature. Strain-relieving defects are generated at a coverage of ∼12 ML and finally lead to heavily defected films consisting of small-angle mosaics.