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Structural and band alignment properties of Al2O3 on epitaxial Ge grown on (100), (110), and (111)A GaAs substrates by molecular beam epitaxy
Journal of Applied Physics
  • Mantu K. Hudait
  • Yizheng Zhu
  • Deepam Maurya
  • Shashank Priya
  • Prabir K. Patra
  • Anson W. K. Ma
  • Ashish Aphale
  • Isaac Macwan, Fairfield University
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-5-2013
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Abstract

Structural and band alignment properties of atomic layer Al2O3 oxide film deposited on crystallographically oriented epitaxial Ge grown in-situ on (100), (110), and (111)A GaAs substrates using two separate molecular beam epitaxy chambers were investigated using cross-sectional transmission microscopy (TEM) and x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). High-resolution triple axis x-ray measurement demonstrated pseudomorphic and high-quality Ge epitaxial layer on crystallographically oriented GaAs substrates. The cross-sectional TEM exhibited a sharp interface between the Ge epilayer and each orientation of the GaAs substrate as well as the Al2O3 film and the Ge epilayer. The extracted valence band offset, ΔEv, values of Al2O3 relative to (100), (110), and (111) Ge orientations using XPS measurement were 3.17 eV, 3.34 eV, and 3.10 eV, respectively. Using XPS data, variations in ΔEv related to the crystallographic orientation were ΔEV(110)Ge>ΔEV(100)Ge≥ΔEV(111)Ge and the conduction band offset, ΔEc, related to the crystallographic orientation was ΔEc(111)Ge>ΔEc(110)Ge>ΔEc(100)Ge using the measured ΔEv, bandgap of Al2O3 in each orientation, and well-known Ge bandgap of 0.67 eV. These band offset parameters are important for future application of Ge-based p- and n-channel metal-oxide field-effect transistor design.

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Published Citation
Hudait, M. K., Zhu, Y., Maurya, D., Priya, S., Patra, P. K., Ma, A. W. K., Aphale, A., Macwan, I. (2013). Structural and band alignment properties of Al2O3 on epitaxial Ge grown on (100), (110), and (111)A GaAs substrates by molecular beam epitaxy. Journal of Applied Physics, 113(13). doi: 10.1063/1.4799367
DOI
10.1063/1.4799367
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Citation Information
Mantu K. Hudait, Yizheng Zhu, Deepam Maurya, Shashank Priya, et al.. "Structural and band alignment properties of Al2O3 on epitaxial Ge grown on (100), (110), and (111)A GaAs substrates by molecular beam epitaxy" Journal of Applied Physics Vol. 113 Iss. 13 (2013)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/isaac-macwan/9/