Si–Ge–Sn alloys: From growth to applications

S Wirths, D Buca, S Mantl - Progress in crystal growth and characterization …, 2016 - Elsevier
In this review article, we address key material parameters as well as the fabrication and
application of crystalline GeSn binary and SiGeSn ternary alloys. Here, the transition from an …

Germanium CMOS potential from material and process perspectives: Be more positive about germanium

A Toriumi, T Nishimura - Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
CMOS miniaturization is now approaching the sub-10 nm level, and further downscaling is
expected. This size scaling will end sooner or later, however, because the typical size is …

Increased photoluminescence of strain-reduced, high-Sn composition Ge1− xSnx alloys grown by molecular beam epitaxy

R Chen, H Lin, Y Huo, C Hitzman, TI Kamins… - Applied physics …, 2011 - pubs.aip.org
We synthesized up to Ge 0.914 Sn 0.086 alloys on (100) GaAs/In y Ga 1− y As buffer layers
using molecular beam epitaxy. The buffer layers enable engineered control of strain in the …

Undoped and in-situ B doped GeSn epitaxial growth on Ge by atmospheric pressure-chemical vapor deposition

B Vincent, F Gencarelli, H Bender, C Merckling… - Applied Physics …, 2011 - pubs.aip.org
In this letter, we propose an atmospheric pressure-chemical vapor deposition technique to
grow metastable GeSn epitaxial layers on Ge. We report the growth of defect free fully …

Growth of silicon based germanium tin alloys

E Kasper, J Werner, M Oehme, S Escoubas, N Burle… - Thin Solid Films, 2012 - Elsevier
Germanium tin (GeSn) is under equilibrium a two phase (Ge+ Sn) system. Single phase
GeSn alloys are important for silicon based heterostructure devices as stressors for Ge …

III–V/Ge channel MOS device technologies in nano CMOS era

S Takagi, R Zhang, J Suh, SH Kim… - Japanese Journal of …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
CMOS utilizing high-mobility III–V/Ge channels on Si substrates is expected to be one of the
promising devices for high-performance and low power advanced LSIs in the future …

Infrared electroluminescence from GeSn heterojunction diodes grown by molecular beam epitaxy

JP Gupta, N Bhargava, S Kim, T Adam… - Applied physics …, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
Infrared electroluminescence was observed from GeSn/Ge pn heterojunction diodes with
8% Sn, grown by molecular beam epitaxy. The GeSn layers were boron doped …

Lattice constant and substitutional composition of GeSn alloys grown by molecular beam epitaxy

N Bhargava, M Coppinger, J Prakash Gupta… - Applied Physics …, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
Single crystal epitaxial Ge 1− x Sn x alloys with atomic fractions of tin up to x= 0.145 were
grown by solid source molecular beam epitaxy on Ge (001) substrates. The Ge 1− x Sn x …

Low-temperature Ge and GeSn chemical vapor deposition using Ge2H6

F Gencarelli, B Vincent, L Souriau, O Richard… - Thin Solid Films, 2012 - Elsevier
In this work, digermane (Ge2H6) is investigated as low temperature Ge precursor for
Chemical Vapor Deposition. High quality Ge epitaxial growth on Si substrates is reported at …

Material characterization of high Sn-content, compressively-strained GeSn epitaxial films after rapid thermal processing

R Chen, YC Huang, S Gupta, AC Lin, E Sanchez… - Journal of crystal …, 2013 - Elsevier
We report on the characterization of high Sn-content (∼ 10% Sn) GeSn films grown on (001)
Ge/Si substrates using reduced-pressure chemical vapor deposition. Pseudomorphic 30nm …