We report on the low-temperature mobility in remotely doped p-type strained Ge layers on relaxed Si0.3Ge0.7 virtual substrates, grown by low-energy plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition. A maximum mobility of 120 000 cm2V−1s−1 has been reached at 2 K, at a carrier sheet density of 8.5×1011cm−2. Analysis of the mobility and Dingle ratio τ/τq as a function of sheet density suggests that remote impurity scattering is the limiting factor at low sheet densities, but that interface impurities become more important as the sheet density increases.

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