Thermal strain relaxation of GaAs overgrown on nanovoid based Ge/Si substrate

J Henriques, B Ilahi, A Heintz, D Morris, R Arès… - Journal of Crystal …, 2023 - Elsevier
The integration of high quality III-V materials-based devices on the Si platform is considered
as an enabling path towards achieving the long-standing goal of creating low-cost/high …

Investigations on Thermal Stress Relief Mechanism Using Air-gapped Sio2 Nanotemplates During Epitaxial Growth of Ge on Si and Corresponding Hole Mobility …

S Ghosh, D Leonhardt, SM Han - ECS Transactions, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
We demonstrate the implementation of air-gapped SiO2 nanotemplates embedded in
epitaxially grown Ge on Si for relieving stress caused by the thermal expansion coefficient …

Growth of highly tensile-strained Ge on relaxed InxGa1− xAs by metal-organic chemical vapor deposition

Y Bai, KE Lee, C Cheng, ML Lee… - Journal of Applied …, 2008 - pubs.aip.org
Highly tensile-strained Ge thin films and quantum dots have the potential to be implemented
for high mobility metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor channels and long …

Strong enhancement of direct transition photoluminescence at room temperature for highly tensile-strained Ge decorated using 5 nm gold nanoparticles

G Dushaq, B Paredes, M Rasras - Nanotechnology, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Strain engineering of germanium has recently attracted tremendous research interest. The
primary goal of this approach is to exploit mechanical strain to tune the electrical and optical …

Selective Ge heteroepitaxy on free-standing Si (001) nanopatterns: a combined Raman, transmission electron microscopy, and finite element method study

G Kozlowski, Y Yamamoto, J Bauer… - Journal of Applied …, 2011 - pubs.aip.org
We report on Ge selectively grown by chemical vapor deposition on free-standing Si (001)
nanostructures for future photonic applications. Si (001) substrate is patterned in the form of …

Voided Ge/Si Platform to Integrate III-V Materials on Si

YA Bioud, A Boucherif, M Myronov… - ECS …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
High-quality germanium epilayers on Si with low threadingdislocation densities are
achieved by self-assembling nanovoids inside the Ge layer. This consists on the formation of …

Ultra-Low Dislocation Ge on Silicon Virtual Substrate: New Insights from Crystal Plasticity Simulations

MH Hamza, YA Bioud, A Boucherif, R Arès… - Available at SSRN …, 2022 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract By sintering porous Si/Ge films, researchers were able to create high-quality
germanium (Ge) epilayers on silicon (Si) with low threading dislocation density. The …

Uprooting defects to enable high-performance III–V optoelectronic devices on silicon

YA Bioud, A Boucherif, M Myronov, A Soltani… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The monolithic integration of III-V compound semiconductor devices with silicon presents
physical and technological challenges, linked to the creation of defects during the deposition …

Reduced thermal conductivity of epitaxial GaAs on Si due to symmetry-breaking biaxial strain

A Vega-Flick, D Jung, S Yue, JE Bowers, B Liao - Physical Review Materials, 2019 - APS
Epitaxial growth of III-V semiconductors on Si is a promising route for silicon photonics.
Threading dislocations and the residual thermal stress generated during growth are …

Defect reduction of Ge on Si by selective epitaxy and hydrogen annealing

HY Yu, JH Park, AK Okyay, K Saraswat - ECS Transactions, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
We demonstrate a promising approach for the monolithic integration of Ge-based
nanoelectronics and nanophotonics with Silicon: the selective deposition of Ge on Si by …