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Vertical Ordering of Amorphous Ge Nanoclusters in Multilayer a-Ge/a-Si:H Heterostructures. / Kamaev, G. N.; Volodin, V. A.; Krivyakin, G. K.
In: Technical Physics Letters, Vol. 47, No. 8, 08.2021, p. 609-612.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Vertical Ordering of Amorphous Ge Nanoclusters in Multilayer a-Ge/a-Si:H Heterostructures
AU - Kamaev, G. N.
AU - Volodin, V. A.
AU - Krivyakin, G. K.
N1 - Funding Information: This work was supported by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation in the framework of a State Order for Fundamental Research in the Institute of Semiconductor Physics, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences (Novosibirsk), project no. 0242-2021-001. Publisher Copyright: © 2021, Pleiades Publishing, Ltd.
PY - 2021/8
Y1 - 2021/8
N2 - We have studied a multilayer heteronanostructure comprising three pairs of amorphous silicon and amorphous germanium (a-Ge/a-Si:H) layers grown at 225°C on a silicon substrate by the method of low-frequency plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition. The phase composition of silicon and germanium layers was determined by Raman spectroscopy, which showed that the layers are completely amorphous. Transmission electron microscopy images revealed the presence of amorphous Ge nanoclusters ordered in the vertical direction, the formation of which was initiated by local nanometer-scale inhomogeneities in the first Ge layer, the lateral dimensions of which grow on the passage from bottom to top layer.
AB - We have studied a multilayer heteronanostructure comprising three pairs of amorphous silicon and amorphous germanium (a-Ge/a-Si:H) layers grown at 225°C on a silicon substrate by the method of low-frequency plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition. The phase composition of silicon and germanium layers was determined by Raman spectroscopy, which showed that the layers are completely amorphous. Transmission electron microscopy images revealed the presence of amorphous Ge nanoclusters ordered in the vertical direction, the formation of which was initiated by local nanometer-scale inhomogeneities in the first Ge layer, the lateral dimensions of which grow on the passage from bottom to top layer.
KW - germanium
KW - heteroboundary
KW - nanocluster
KW - self-organization
KW - silicon
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U2 - 10.1134/S1063785021060237
DO - 10.1134/S1063785021060237
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85121398962
VL - 47
SP - 609
EP - 612
JO - Technical Physics Letters
JF - Technical Physics Letters
SN - 1063-7850
IS - 8
ER -
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