OPTICAL AND STRUCTURAL INVESTIGATIONS OF INTERMIXING REACTIONS AT THE INTERFACES OF INAS/ALSB AND INAS/GASB QUANTUM-WELLS GROWN BY MOLECULAR-BEAM EPITAXY

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作者
SCHMITZ, J
WAGNER, J
FUCHS, F
HERRES, N
KOIDL, P
RALSTON, JD
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[1] Fraunhofer Institut für Angewandte Festkörperphysik, Freiburg, D-79108
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10.1016/0022-0248(95)80061-G
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O7 [晶体学];
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0702 ; 070205 ; 0703 ; 080501 ;
摘要
Several issues related to the interface structure in molecular-beam epitaxially grown InAs/AlSb and InAs/GaSb heterostructures are investigated by Raman scattering, photoluminescence and X-ray measurements. The measurements reveal differing degrees of layer intermixing at the interfaces (IFs), greatest for AlAs-like IFs in the InAs/AlSb material system, less pronounced for GaAs-like IFs in the InAs/GaSb material system, and smallest for InSb like IFs in both systems. This intermixing is both thermodynamically favoured and, in addition, driven by a lowering of the strain-induced component of the surface energy.
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