[HTML][HTML] Germanium wafers for strained quantum wells with low disorder

LEA Stehouwer, A Tosato, D Degli Esposti… - Applied Physics …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
We grow strained Ge/SiGe heterostructures by reduced-pressure chemical vapor deposition
on 100 mm Ge wafers. The use of Ge wafers as substrates for epitaxy enables high-quality …

Lightly strained germanium quantum wells with hole mobility exceeding one million

M Lodari, O Kong, M Rendell, A Tosato… - Applied Physics …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
We demonstrate that a lightly strained germanium channel (⁠ ε//=− 0.41%⁠) in an undoped
Ge/Si 0.1 Ge 0.9 heterostructure field effect transistor supports a two-dimensional (2D) hole …

Raman study of strained Ge1− xSnx alloys

H Lin, R Chen, Y Huo, TI Kamins, JS Harris - Applied Physics Letters, 2011 - pubs.aip.org
The Ge-Ge longitudinal optical Raman peak has been measured in strained Ge 1− x Sn x
alloy layers grown on top of relaxed In y Ga 1− y As buffer layers on GaAs substrates by …

Raman spectroscopy determination of composition and strain in Si1-xGex/Si heterostructures

F Pezzoli, E Bonera, E Grilli, M Guzzi… - Materials science in …, 2008 - Elsevier
A procedure for the quantitative measurement of composition and strain in epitaxial Si1-
xGex/Si heterostructures by means of Raman spectroscopy for any Ge concentration is …

Strain relaxation in high Ge content SiGe layers deposited on Si

G Capellini, M De Seta, Y Busby, M Pea… - Journal of Applied …, 2010 - pubs.aip.org
We have used Raman spectroscopy, transmission electron microscopy, x-ray diffraction, and
x-ray photoemission spectroscopy to investigate strain relaxation mechanism of Si 0.22 Ge …

Controlling the thermoelectric power of silicon–germanium alloys in different crystalline phases by applying high pressure

NV Morozova, IV Korobeinikov, NV Abrosimov… - …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Silicon, germanium and their alloys are classical semiconductors that play an important role
in fundamental sciences and are the basis for modern microelectronics, optoelectronics …

Germanium content and strain in Si1− xGex alloys characterized by Raman spectroscopy

D Rouchon, M Mermoux, F Bertin, JM Hartmann - Journal of crystal growth, 2014 - Elsevier
Previous Raman spectroscopy studies on SiGe alloys have left rather large uncertainties
concerning the relationships between the Raman peaks׳ frequency shifts and stress. In this …

Temperature dependence of strain–phonon coefficient in epitaxial Ge/Si (001): A comprehensive analysis

CL Manganelli, M Virgilio, O Skibitzki… - Journal of Raman …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We investigate the temperature dependence of the Ge Raman mode strain–phonon
coefficient in Ge/Si heteroepitaxial layers. By analyzing the temperature‐dependent …

Near-and far-infrared absorption and electronic structure of Ge-SiGe multiple quantum wells

Y Busby, M De Seta, G Capellini, F Evangelisti… - Physical Review B …, 2010 - APS
We report an extensive study of strained Ge/Si 0.2 Ge 0.8 multiquantum wells grown by
ultrahigh-vacuum chemical-vapor deposition. The microstructural properties of the samples …

Theory of strain effects on the Raman spectrum of Si‐Ge core‐shell nanowires

J Menéndez, R Singh, J Drucker - Annalen der Physik, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
An analytical model is introduced to compute the Raman spectrum of Si‐Ge core shell
nanowires. For the calculation of the strain, the materials are assumed to be elastically …