Radius of curvature in MBE grown heterostructures

T. Dieing1, B.F. Usher1
1Department of Electronic Engineering, La Trobe university, VIC, Australia

Tóm tắt

Misfit stress in MBE grown heterostructures causes these structures to bend. Former theories on semiconductor wafer curvature have been re-examined and errors that have persisted in the literature have been corrected. We present an approach to describe the wafer curvature of strained layer systems using basic physical equations. A description of the position of the neutral plane for epitaxial heterostructures is presented. Wafer curvature has been studied using X-ray diffraction and the results are in good agreement with the theory.

Từ khóa

#Lattices #Substrates #Capacitive sensors #Molecular beam epitaxial growth #Equations #X-ray diffraction #Epitaxial layers #Gallium arsenide #Stress #Error correction

Tài liệu tham khảo

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