ZHANG Tine-min, MIAO Guo-qing, JIN Yi-xin, XIE Jian-chun, JIANG Hong, LI Zhi-ming, SONG Hang. Effect of the In<sub>x</sub>Ga<sub>1-x</sub>As Buffer Layer Compositions on Crystalline Quality and Surface Morphology of In<sub>0.82</sub>Ga<sub>0.18</sub>As Grown by Low Pressure MOCVD[J]. Chinese Journal of Luminescence, 2006,27(5): 797-800
ZHANG Tine-min, MIAO Guo-qing, JIN Yi-xin, XIE Jian-chun, JIANG Hong, LI Zhi-ming, SONG Hang. Effect of the In<sub>x</sub>Ga<sub>1-x</sub>As Buffer Layer Compositions on Crystalline Quality and Surface Morphology of In<sub>0.82</sub>Ga<sub>0.18</sub>As Grown by Low Pressure MOCVD[J]. Chinese Journal of Luminescence, 2006,27(5): 797-800DOI:
Effect of the InxGa1-xAs Buffer Layer Compositions on Crystalline Quality and Surface Morphology of In0.82Ga0.18As Grown by Low Pressure MOCVD
As material is very important for uncooled infrared detector and has spectral response from 1 μm to 3 μm. In recent years
there are growing needs for high In composition In
x
Ga
1-x
As detectors
the most important applications are spectral imaging including earth observation
remote sensing and environmental monitoring
etc. The In
x
Ga
1-x
As (x
>
0.53) was grown on semi-insulating (100) Fe-doped InP substrates by LP-MOCVD. The growth was performed using TMIn
TMGa
and AsH3 as growth precursors in a horizontal reactor. Two step method of In
0.82
Ga
0.18
As growth that the buffer layer was grown at low temperature of 450℃ and the epilayer was grown at higher temperature of 530℃ was studied. After depositing 300 nm In
x
Ga
1-x
As buffer layer
In
0.82
Ga
0.18
As epilayer with thickness of 1 μm was deposited. It was observed that the different In composition of In
x
Ga
1-x
As buffer layer influence on crystalline quality and surface morphology of In
0.82
Ga
0.18
As epilayer. The crystalline quality of the epilayer materials was characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD). In our experiment
the In composition of the In
x
Ga
1-x
As buffer layers was 0.28
0.53
0.82 and 0.88
respectively. The full-width-at-half-maximum (FWHM) of diffraction peak for the buffer layer of In
0.82
Ga
0.18
As is 0.362° and is the narrowest among the four samples. The surface morphology was observed by scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The SEM image of the sample with buffer layer of In
0.82
Ga
0.18
As is a flat surface and is better than other samples with cross-hatches
pits or some defects. We found that the In composition of the In
x
Ga
1-x
As buffer can influence on the surface morphology of the In
0.82
Ga
0.18
As epilayer. The experiments show the crystalline quality and the surface morphology of the In
0.82
Ga
0.18
As epilayer is optimum when the In composition of buffer layer is the same as that of the epilayer.
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Key Laboratory of Excited State Processes, Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130033, China
College of Physics and Electronic Engineering, Hainan Normal University
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Tung Sah MEMS Research Center, Xiamen University, Xiamen
Department of Physics, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China