Electronic Resource
Woodbury, NY
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American Institute of Physics (AIP)
Applied Physics Letters
71 (1997), S. 3501-3503
ISSN:
1077-3118
Source:
AIP Digital Archive
Topics:
Physics
Notes:
We report transmission electron microscopy (TEM) studies of precipitation in Ag-implanted and annealed Al0.3Ga0.7As. Silver was chosen because it does not form compounds with Ga and/or As when precipitating based on bulk thermodynamics arguments. TEM confirmed the formation of an elemental metal/semiconductor composite, which consists of nanometer-sized Ag (fcc structure) precipitates dispersed in the matrix. The precipitates are nonspherical and have an orientation relationship to Al0.3Ga0.7As of (200)Ag//(200)AlGaAs, (02-2)Ag//(02-2)AlGaAs, and [011]Ag//[011]AlGaAs. High temperature (900 °C) anneals transform the phase of the precipitate to hexagonal, Ag3(GaAl) compounds. This shape distribution has been correlated with inhomogeneous broadening of the optical absorption. © 1997 American Institute of Physics.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.120372
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