Optical and acoustic phonon modes in self-organized Ge quantum dot superlattices

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Liu, JL [1 ]
Jin, G
Tang, YS
Luo, YH
Wang, KL
Yu, DP
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[1] Univ Calif Los Angeles, Dept Elect Engn, Device Res Lab, Los Angeles, CA 90095 USA
[2] Peking Univ, Electron Microscopy Lab, Beijing 100871, Peoples R China
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10.1063/1.125825
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O59 [应用物理学];
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Raman scattering measurements were carried out in self-organized Ge quantum dot superlattices. The samples consisted of 25 periods of Ge quantum dots with different dot sizes sandwiched by 20 nm Si spacers, and were grown using solid-source molecular-beam epitaxy. Optical phonon modes were found to be around 300 cm(-1), and a dependence of the Raman peak frequency on the size of dots was evidenced in good agreement with a prediction based on phonon confinement and strain effects. Acoustic phonons related to the Ge quantum dots have also been observed. (C) 2000 American Institute of Physics. [S0003-6951(00)03305-2].
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