Thermal stability of strained Si on relaxed Si1-XGeX buffer layers

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Mooney, PM [1 ]
Koester, SJ [1 ]
Ott, JA [1 ]
Jordan-Sweet, JL [1 ]
Chu, JO [1 ]
Chan, KK [1 ]
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[1] IBM Corp, Thomas J Watson Res Ctr, Yorktown Hts, NY 10598 USA
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The thermal stability of strained Si on relaxed Si1-xGex structures annealed at 1000 degreesC was investigated using high-resolution x-ray diffraction, Raman spectroscopy and transmission electron microscopy. Interdiffusion at the Si/Si1-xGex interface is negligible for annealing times <30 sec and is independent of the initial Si layer thickness and the composition of the Si1-xGex layer. In all cases the Si layers remained nearly fully strained, but a significant density of misfit dislocations was seen in layers that exceeded the critical thickness for dislocation glide. The Si layer thickness could be measured for layers as thin as 7 nm.
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