GROWTH OF HIGH-QUALITY GE FILMS ON SI(111) USING SB AS SURFACTANT

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LARSSON, MI
NI, WX
JOELSSON, K
HANSSON, GV
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[1] Department of Physics and Measurement Technology, Linköping University
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10.1063/1.112067
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O59 [应用物理学];
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High quality, completely relaxed Ge films have been grown on Si(111) using Sb as surfactant at the initial stage of growth. After desorbing the surface Sb layer, cusplike reflection high-energy electron diffraction intensity oscillations indicated excellent Ge layer-by-layer epitaxy. High resolution x-ray diffraction analysis showed a very high crystalline quality and well resolved thickness fringes consistent with a flat relaxed Ge layer. Chemical preferential etching experiments revealed a defect density of down to approximately 3 X 10(4) cm-2.
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