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Liu L, Chen R, Kong C, Deng Z, Liu G, Yan J, Qin L, Du H, Song S, Zhang X, Wang W. Low-Temperature Growth of InGaAs Quantum Wells Using Migration-Enhanced Epitaxy. Materials (Basel) 2024; 17:845. [PMID: 38399096 PMCID: PMC10890182 DOI: 10.3390/ma17040845] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2024] [Revised: 02/04/2024] [Accepted: 02/08/2024] [Indexed: 02/25/2024]
Abstract
The growth of InGaAs quantum wells (QWs) epitaxially on InP substrates is of great interest due to their wide application in optoelectronic devices. However, conventional molecular beam epitaxy requires substrate temperatures between 400 and 500 °C, which can lead to disorder scattering, dopant diffusion, and interface roughening, adversely affecting device performance. Lower growth temperatures enable the fabrication of high-speed optoelectronic devices by increasing arsenic antisite defects and reducing carrier lifetimes. This work investigates the low-temperature epitaxial growth of InAs/GaAs short-period superlattices as an ordered replacement for InGaAs quantum wells, using migration-enhanced epitaxy (MEE) with low growth temperatures down to 200-250 °C. The InAs/GaAs multi-quantum wells with InAlAs barriers using MEE grown at 230 °C show good single crystals with sharp interfaces, without mismatch dislocations found. The Raman results reveal that the MEE mode enables the growth of (InAs)4(GaAs)3/InAlAs QWs with excellent periodicity, effectively reducing alloy scattering. The room temperature (RT) photoluminescence (PL) measurement shows the strong PL responses with narrow peaks, revealing the good quality of the MEE-grown QWs. The RT electron mobility of the sample grown in low-temperature MEE mode is as high as 2100 cm2/V∗s. In addition, the photoexcited band-edge carrier lifetime was about 3.3 ps at RT. The high-quality superlattices obtained confirm MEE's effectiveness for enabling advanced III-V device structures at reduced temperatures. This promises improved performance for applications in areas such as high-speed transistors, terahertz imaging, and optical communications.
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- Linsheng Liu
- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Brain-Inspired Computing and Intelligent Chips/Key Laboratory of Integrated Circuits and Microsystems (Education Department of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region), School of Electronic and Information Engineering/School of Integrated Circuits, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin 541004, China; (L.L.)
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- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Brain-Inspired Computing and Intelligent Chips/Key Laboratory of Integrated Circuits and Microsystems (Education Department of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region), School of Electronic and Information Engineering/School of Integrated Circuits, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin 541004, China; (L.L.)
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- State Key Laboratory of Superlattices and Microstructures, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100083, China
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- Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
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- School of Physical Science and Technology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China
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- Sino Nitride Semiconductor Co., Ltd., Dongguan 523000, China
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- Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
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- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Brain-Inspired Computing and Intelligent Chips/Key Laboratory of Integrated Circuits and Microsystems (Education Department of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region), School of Electronic and Information Engineering/School of Integrated Circuits, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin 541004, China; (L.L.)
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- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Brain-Inspired Computing and Intelligent Chips/Key Laboratory of Integrated Circuits and Microsystems (Education Department of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region), School of Electronic and Information Engineering/School of Integrated Circuits, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin 541004, China; (L.L.)
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- State Key Laboratory of Superlattices and Microstructures, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100083, China
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- Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
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Chen R, Li X, Du H, Yan J, Kong C, Liu G, Lu G, Zhang X, Song S, Zhang X, Liu L. Migration-Enhanced Epitaxial Growth of InAs/GaAs Short-Period Superlattices for THz Generation. Nanomaterials (Basel) 2024; 14:294. [PMID: 38334565 PMCID: PMC10857349 DOI: 10.3390/nano14030294] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/27/2023] [Revised: 01/24/2024] [Accepted: 01/29/2024] [Indexed: 02/10/2024]
Abstract
The low-temperature-grown InGaAs (LT-InGaAs) photoconductive antenna has received great attention for the development of highly compact and integrated cheap THz sources. However, the performance of the LT-InGaAs photoconductive antenna is limited by its low resistivity and mobility. The generated radiated power is much weaker compared to the low-temperature-grown GaAs-based photoconductive antennas. This is mainly caused by the low abundance of excess As in LT-InGaAs with the conventional growth mode, which inevitably gives rise to the formation of As precipitate and alloy scattering after annealing. In this paper, the migration-enhanced molecular beam epitaxy technique is developed to grow high-quality (InAs)m/(GaAs)n short-period superlattices with a sharp interface instead of InGaAs on InP substrate. The improved electron mobility and resistivity at room temperature (RT) are found to be 843 cm2/(V·s) and 1648 ohm/sq, respectively, for the (InAs)m/(GaAs)n short-period superlattice. The band-edge photo-excited carrier lifetime is determined to be ~1.2 ps at RT. The calculated photocurrent intensity, obtained by solving the Maxwell wave equation and the coupled drift-diffusion/Poisson equation using the finite element method, is in good agreement with previously reported results. This work may provide a new approach for the material growth towards high-performance THz photoconductive antennas with high radiation power.
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- Ruolin Chen
- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Brain-Inspired Computing and Intelligent Chips, School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin 541004, China
- Key Laboratory of Integrated Circuits and Microsystems, Education Department of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, School of Integrated Circuits, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin 541004, China
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- Key Laboratory of Nanodevices and Applications, Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Suzhou 215123, China
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- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Brain-Inspired Computing and Intelligent Chips, School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin 541004, China
- Key Laboratory of Integrated Circuits and Microsystems, Education Department of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, School of Integrated Circuits, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin 541004, China
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- Sino Nitride Semiconductor Co., Ltd., Dongguan 523000, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Superlattices and Microstructures, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100083, China
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- School of Physical Science and Technology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China
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- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Brain-Inspired Computing and Intelligent Chips, School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin 541004, China
- Key Laboratory of Integrated Circuits and Microsystems, Education Department of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, School of Integrated Circuits, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin 541004, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Superlattices and Microstructures, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100083, China
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- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Brain-Inspired Computing and Intelligent Chips, School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin 541004, China
- Key Laboratory of Integrated Circuits and Microsystems, Education Department of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, School of Integrated Circuits, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin 541004, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Superlattices and Microstructures, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100083, China
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- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Brain-Inspired Computing and Intelligent Chips, School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin 541004, China
- Key Laboratory of Integrated Circuits and Microsystems, Education Department of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, School of Integrated Circuits, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin 541004, China
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