CHARACTERIZATION OF INTERDIFFUSION COEFFICIENTS IN GAAS-ALAS SUPERLATTICES WITH LASER RAMAN-SPECTROSCOPY

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HARA, N
KATODA, T
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[1] Department of Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113
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10.1063/1.348737
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A new method to estimate interdiffusion coefficients in superlattices (SLs) is proposed. The method is based on measurement of thicknesses of layers which remain without forming an alloy after an annealing that induced interdiffusion. The measurement was done from the frequency of phonons based on the Raman spectra. Values of interdiffusion coefficients obtained by the method were almost in the same order as those reported previously. It is also shown that the gallium atoms in GaAs-AlAs SLs diffuse more rapidly into AlAs layers than aluminum atoms which diffuse into GaAs layers. Interdiffusion coefficients decreased at first with the annealing time and increased slightly when the annealing was done for more than 1.5 h at 860-degrees-C.
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