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We investigated the effect of annealing on the crystalline quality of Ge epilayers grown on low porosity porous silicon (pSi) buffer layer and on bulk Si by LEPECVD. High‐resolution XRD analysis indicates that during annealing, Ge grown on pSi undergoes a stronger reorganization compared to Ge grown on Si in terms of strain distribution and mosaic broadening. Strong morphological reorganization of the pSi buffer during annealing leads to a stronger reduction in Ge mosaicity as compared to annealed Ge on bulk Si. This improvement is attributed to bending of threading dislocations in a plane parallel to the growth interface, which is attributed to a strain field introduced by pSi within Ge during their simultaneous reorganization at high‐temperature. After cyclic annealing at 750 °C, plan view transmission electron microscopy analysis revealed a threading dislocation density for Ge on pSi which is about one order …
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Publication date: 
1 Jan 2016
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Gabriele Calabrese, Stefano Baricordi, Paolo Bernardoni, D De Salvador, Matteo Ferroni, Vincenzo Guidi, V Morandi, Donato Vincenzi

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Volume: 213 Issue: 1 Pages: 96-101
Origin: 
physica status solidi (a)