GROWTH MODES IN ATOMIC HYDROGEN-ASSISTED MOLECULAR-BEAM EPITAXY OF GAAS

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OKADA, Y
FUJITA, T
KAWABE, M
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[1] Institute of Materials Science, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305
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10.1063/1.115200
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It has been shown that irradiation with atomic hydrogen during the growth of GaAs in molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) promotes an ideal layer-by-layer two-dimensional nucleation and step-flow growth mode on GaAs(001) substrates, thereby resulting in atomically flat surfaces. Fundamentally important observations related to elementary processes have been presented based on the reflection high-energy electron diffraction (RHEED) and atomic force microscopy (AFM) measurements. A growth model for the atomic hydrogen-assisted GaAs MBE has been postulated. (C) 1995 American Institute of Physics.
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