Local strain in interface: Origin of grain tilting in diamond (001) silicon (001) heteroepitaxy

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作者
Jiang, X [1 ]
Zhang, RQ [1 ]
Yu, G [1 ]
Lee, ST [1 ]
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[1] City Univ Hong Kong, Dept Phys & Mat Sci, Hong Kong, Peoples R China
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10.1103/PhysRevB.58.15351
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T [工业技术];
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Diamond grain tilting, one of the central problems of diamond heteroepitaxy on silicon (001) surface, has been studied by means of atomic-force and high-resolution electron microscopic observations, and by theoretical simulation using the molecular-orbital method. It is shown that, due to interface mismatch-induced local lattice strain and three-dimensional stacking, diamond nucleation in small areas results naturally in grain tilting. For more perfect heteroepitaxy, nucleation with reduced silicon surface damage and over relatively large lateral domains is required. [S0163-1829(98)06647-8].
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