Journal of Crystal Growth, Vol.378, 117-120, 2013
Growth of heterostructures on InAs for high mobility device applications
The growth of heterostructures lattice matched to InAs(100) substrates for high mobility electronic devices has been investigated. The oxide removal process and homoepitaxial nucleation depends on the deposition parameters to avoid the formation of surface defects that can propagate through the structure during growth which can result in degraded device performance. The growth parameters for InAs homoepitaxy were found to be within an extremely narrow range when using As-4 with a slight increase using As-2. High structural quality lattice matched AlAsxSb1-x buffer layer was grown on InAs(100) substrates using a digital growth technique with the AlAs mole fraction adjusted by varying the incident As flux. Using the AlAsxSb1-x buffer layer, the transport properties of thin InAs channel layers were determined on conducting native substrates. (c) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Keywords:Atomic force microscopy;Molecular beam epitaxy;Antimonides;Semiconducting ternary compounds;Semiconducting indium compounds