A Grazing Incidence Fast Atom Diffraction (GIFAD) system has been mounted on a commercial molecular beam epitaxy chamber and used to monitor GaAs growth in real-time. In contrast to the conventionally used Reflection High Energy Electron Diffraction, all the GIFAD diffraction orders oscillate in phase, with the change in intensity related to diffuse scattering at step edges. We show that the scattered intensity integrated over the Laue circle is a robust method to monitor the periodic change in surface roughness during layer-by-layer growth, with oscillation phase and amplitude independent of incidence angle and crystal orientation. When there is a change in surface reconstruction at the start of growth, GIFAD intensity oscillations show that there is a corresponding delay in the onset of layer-by-layer growth. In addition, changes in the relative intensity of different diffraction orders have been observed during growth showing that GIFAD has the potential to provide insight into the preferential adatom attachment sites on the surface reconstruction during growth.
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14 July 2014
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July 14 2014
Dynamic grazing incidence fast atom diffraction during molecular beam epitaxial growth of GaAs
P. Atkinson;
P. Atkinson
a)
1
Sorbonne Universités
, UPMC Univ. Paris 06, UMR 7588, INSP, F-75005 Paris, France
2CNRS, UMR 7588,
Institut des NanoSciences de Paris
, 4 place Jussieu, F-75005 Paris, France
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M. Eddrief;
M. Eddrief
1
Sorbonne Universités
, UPMC Univ. Paris 06, UMR 7588, INSP, F-75005 Paris, France
2CNRS, UMR 7588,
Institut des NanoSciences de Paris
, 4 place Jussieu, F-75005 Paris, France
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V. H. Etgens;
V. H. Etgens
2CNRS, UMR 7588,
Institut des NanoSciences de Paris
, 4 place Jussieu, F-75005 Paris, France
3
VeDeCom-Université Versailles Saint-Quentin en Yvelines
, Versailles, France
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H. Khemliche;
H. Khemliche
b)
4
ISMO UMR8214 CNRS-Université Paris-Sud
, Orsay F-91400, France
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M. Debiossac;
M. Debiossac
4
ISMO UMR8214 CNRS-Université Paris-Sud
, Orsay F-91400, France
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A. Momeni;
A. Momeni
4
ISMO UMR8214 CNRS-Université Paris-Sud
, Orsay F-91400, France
5
Univ. Cergy Pontoise
, F-95031 Cergy, France
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M. Mulier;
M. Mulier
4
ISMO UMR8214 CNRS-Université Paris-Sud
, Orsay F-91400, France
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B. Lalmi;
B. Lalmi
4
ISMO UMR8214 CNRS-Université Paris-Sud
, Orsay F-91400, France
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P. Roncin
P. Roncin
4
ISMO UMR8214 CNRS-Université Paris-Sud
, Orsay F-91400, France
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Appl. Phys. Lett. 105, 021602 (2014)
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Received:
April 01 2014
Accepted:
July 02 2014
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P. Atkinson, M. Eddrief, V. H. Etgens, H. Khemliche, M. Debiossac, A. Momeni, M. Mulier, B. Lalmi, P. Roncin; Dynamic grazing incidence fast atom diffraction during molecular beam epitaxial growth of GaAs. Appl. Phys. Lett. 14 July 2014; 105 (2): 021602. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4890121
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