An ion beam with different incident energies E was used to analyze a 500‐Å‐thick In0.25Ga0.75As strained epitaxial film grown on GaAs (100) by molecular beam epitaxy. Ion channeling angular scans about 〈110〉 axis were carried out in (100) plane. When E is 5.8 MeV, the angular misalignment between 〈110〉 channels of the top layer and the substrate was 0.90°. We can calculate the planar strain of the epilayer, which is 1.62%. When incident ion energy was decreased, anomalous phemomena were observed in the angular scan profiles of the substrate. When E is 3.0 MeV, a serious asymmetry appeared in axial scan profile of the substrate; When E is 1.2 MeV, the angular misalignment reduced to 0.60°, and the critical angle for channeling of the substrate is 1.25° which is much larger than that of the epilayer, 0.95°. The physical mechanism giving rise to these phenomena is discussed, and the causes and conditions for these phenomena taking place were pointed out.
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1 September 1990
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September 01 1990
Anomalous ion channeling in InGaAs/GaAs strained heterojunction
Chunwu Wu;
Chunwu Wu
Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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Shiduan Yin;
Shiduan Yin
Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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Jingping Zhang;
Jingping Zhang
Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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Guangming Xiao;
Guangming Xiao
Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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Jiarui Liu;
Jiarui Liu
Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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Peiran Zhu
Peiran Zhu
Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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J. Appl. Phys. 68, 2100–2104 (1990)
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Received:
January 05 1990
Accepted:
May 10 1990
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Chunwu Wu, Shiduan Yin, Jingping Zhang, Guangming Xiao, Jiarui Liu, Peiran Zhu; Anomalous ion channeling in InGaAs/GaAs strained heterojunction. J. Appl. Phys. 1 September 1990; 68 (5): 2100–2104. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.346564
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