Study of Ge epitaxial growth on Si substrates by cluster beam deposition
Authors:
J. L. Xu and J. Y. Feng
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Advanced Materials, Tsinghua University, 100084 Beijing, China
Abstract:
Ge epitaxial layers with reasonable quality were grown on Si (1 1 1) substrates by cluster beam deposition (CBD) process. Molecular dynamics study of the low energy Ge clusters deposition process utilizing the Stillinger–Weber two- and three-body interaction potentials was carried out to compare the experimental results. Both experimental and simulation results prove that the substrate temperature plays a dominant role in the epitaxial growth of Ge films in CBD process. The influence mechanisms of temperature are discussed.