Selective-area high-quality germanium growth for monolithic integrated optoelectronics

Hyun Yong Yu, Jin Hong Park, Ali K. Okyay, Krishna C. Saraswat

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    Abstract

    Selective-area germanium (Ge) layer on silicon (Si) is desired to realize the advanced Ge devices integrated with Si very-large-scale-integration (VLSI) components. We demonstrate the area-dependent high-quality Ge growth on Si substrate through SiO 2 windows. The combination of area-dependent growth and multistep deposition/hydrogen annealing cycles has effectively reduced the surface roughness and the threading dislocation density. Low root-mean-square surface roughness of 0.6 nm is confirmed by atomic-force-microscope analysis. Low defect density in the area-dependent grown Ge layer is measured to be as low as 1 × 10 7cm -2 by plan-view transmission-electron-miscroscope analysis. In addition, the excellent metal-semiconductor-metal photodiode characteristics are shown on the grown Ge layer to open up a possibility to merge Ge optoelectronics with Si VLSI.

    Original languageEnglish
    Article number6163345
    Pages (from-to)579-581
    Number of pages3
    JournalIEEE Electron Device Letters
    Volume33
    Issue number4
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2012 Apr

    Bibliographical note

    Funding Information:
    Manuscript received November 5, 2011; revised December 12, 2011; accepted December 17, 2011. Date of publication March 2, 2012; date of current version March 23, 2012. This work was supported in part by Microelectronics Advanced Research Corporation Interconnect Focus Centers and in part by the Stanford University Initiative for Nanoscale Materials and Process program. This work was performed at the Stanford Nanofabrication Facility. The review of this letter was arranged by Editor P. K.-L. Yu.

    Keywords

    • Area dependent
    • germanium
    • monolithic
    • optoelectronics

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
    • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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