High quality single-crystal germanium-on-insulator on bulk Si substrates based on multistep lateral over-growth with hydrogen annealing

Hyun Yong Yu, Szu Lin Cheng, Jin Hong Park, Ali K. Okyay, M. Cengiz Onbal, Burcu Ercan, Yoshio Nishi, Krishna C. Saraswat

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Abstract

Germanium-on-insulator (GOI) is desired for high performance metal-oxide-semiconductor transistors and monolithically integrated optoelectronics. We demonstrate a promising approach to achieve single-crystal defect-free GOI by using lateral over-growth through SiO2 window. The dislocations due to the lattice mismatch are effectively terminated and reduced in SiO2 trench by selective area heteroepitaxy combined with hydrogen annealing. Low defect density of 4× 106 cm-2 and low surface roughness of 0.7 nm (root-mean-square) on GOI are confirmed by plan-view transmission electron microscopy and atomic force microscopy analysis. In addition, the excellent metal-semiconductor-metal diode electrical characteristics fabricated on this GOI confirm Ge crystal quality. The selectively grown GOI structure can provide the monolithic integration of SiGe based devices on a Si very large scale integration (VLSI) platform.

Original languageEnglish
Article number063503
JournalApplied Physics Letters
Volume97
Issue number6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2010 Aug 9
Externally publishedYes

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This work was performed at the Stanford Nanofabrication Facility (SNF) and was supported by MARCO Interconnect Focus Centers and the Stanford University INMP. The authors are grateful to Ted Kamins for helpful discussion.

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)

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