Cross‐sectional high resolution electron microscopy of Zn+ implanted and low‐power pulsed‐laser annealed GaAs

1996 ◽  
Vol 69 (26) ◽  
pp. 4072-4074 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Vitali ◽  
G. Zollo ◽  
C. Pizzuto ◽  
D. Manno ◽  
M. Kalitzova ◽  
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1990 ◽  
Vol 202 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Catana ◽  
P.E. Schmid

ABSTRACTHigh Resolution Electron Microscopy (HREM) and image calculations are combined to study microstructural changes related to the CoSi/Si-CoSi/CoSi2/Si-CoSi2/Si transformations. The samples are prepared by UHV e-beam evaporation of Co layers (2 nm) followed by annealing at 300°C or 400°C. Cross-sectional observations at an atomic scale show that the silicidation of Co at the lower temperature yields epitaxial CoSi/Si domains such that [111]Si // [111]CoSi and <110>Si // <112>CoSi. At about 400°C CoSi2 nucleates at the CoSi/Si interface. During the early stages of this chemical reaction, an epitaxial CoSi/CoSi2/Si system is observed. The predominant orientation is such that (021) CoSi planes are parallel to (220) CoSi2 planes, the CoSi2/Si interface being of type B. The growth of CoSi2 is shown to proceed at the expense of both CoSi and Si.


1996 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. 2951-2954 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. G. Wen ◽  
S. Mahajan ◽  
H. Ohtsuka ◽  
T. Morishita ◽  
N. Koshizuka

Highly in-plane aligned α-axis YBa2Cu3O7−x thin films deposited on (100) LaSrGaO4 substrates by a self-template method were studied by high-resolution electron microscopy along three orthogonal 〈100〉 axes of the substrate. Plan-view images confirm that the majority of the film preferentially aligns across the entire substrate except for very few misaligned domains with average size 10 nm2. Cross-sectional images along the [100] orientation of YBa2Cu3O7−x reveal that in-plane aligned α-axis YBa2Cu3O7−x is grown on a template layer dominated by c-axis oriented film. This strongly suggests that the in-plane alignment of α-axis YBa2Cu3O7−x thin films on (100) LaSrGaO4 substrates is governed by the different stresses along the b and c axes of the substrate. Cross-sectional images along [001] of the YBa2Cu3O7—x thin film reveal that the 90° domains easily nucleate in the region between α-axis YBa2Cu3O7—x and the YBa4Cu3Ox phase. Cracks along the (001) plane of YBa2Cu3O7−x are found to be due to the large mismatch between the c parameters of the thin film and substrate.


Author(s):  
Y. Ikuhara ◽  
P. Pirouz ◽  
A. H. Heuer ◽  
S. Yadavalli ◽  
C. P. Flynn

The interface structure between vanadium and the R-plane of sapphire (α-Al2O3) was studied by conventional and cross-sectional high resolution electron microscopy (HREM) to clarify the atomic structure of the interface.A 57 nm thick vanadium film was deposited on the (1102) (R) plane of sapphire by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) at a substrate temperature of 920 K in a vacuum of 10-10torr. The HREM observations of the interface were done from three directions: two cross-sectional views (parallel to [0221]Al2O3 and [1120]Al2O3) and a plan view (parallel to [2201]Al2O3) by a top-entry JEOL 4000EX electron microscope (400 kV).


1989 ◽  
Vol 160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuanda Cheng ◽  
Mary Beth Stearns ◽  
David J. Smith

AbstractStudies have been made of the dependence of the structure on the deposition angle and the substrate temperature of a series of Mo/Si multilyers fabricated in a UHV system by e-beam evaporation. The detailed morphology was determined by cross-sectional high resolution electron microscopy. Columnar growth in the crystalline Mo layers was found to follow the tangent rule. The overall quality of the multilayers was found to depend strongly on the growth conditions.


1994 ◽  
Vol 357 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jie Yang ◽  
Zhangda Lin ◽  
Li-Xin Wang ◽  
Sing Jin ◽  
Ze Zhang

AbstractDiamond films with high preferential orientation (111) on silicon (100) crystalline orientation substrates had been obtained by hot-filament chemical vapor deposition (HFCVD) method. X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), Raman spectroscopy, and high-resolution cross-sectional transmission electron microscopy (HREM) are used to characterizate the structure and morphology of the synthesised diamond films. Diamond (111) plans had been local grown epitaxially on the Si(100) substrate observed by HREM. SEM photographes show that plane diamond crystals have been obtained.


1991 ◽  
Vol 222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. Cheng ◽  
M. B. Stearns

ABSTRACTStudies were made of the dependence of the morphology of Mo films, prepared by ebeam evaporation in an UHV system, on the substrate temperature and deposition angle. The main characterization techniques used were large angle x-ray scattering and cross-sectional high resolution electron microscopy.


1990 ◽  
Vol 209 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Mayer ◽  
J. Dura ◽  
C.P. Flynn ◽  
M. RüHle

ABSTRACTSingle crystal niobium films were grown by Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) on (0001)s sapphire substrates. Cross-sectional specimens with thickness of <20 nm were prepared so that the Nb/A1203 interface could be investigated by high resolutionelectron microscopy (HREM). The orientation relationship between the metal film and the ceramic substrate was verified by selected area diffraction: (111)Nb ║(0001)S and [110]Nb║[2110]S. The atomistic structure of the interface was identified by HREM.


Author(s):  
O.L. Krivanek ◽  
Z. Liliental

Owing to the success of high resolution electron microscopy (HREM), the structure of the most important semiconductor interfaces is now relatively well known on a scale of about 0.3nm. What is frequently missing, however, is information on the chemical composition on a similar scale.The spatial resolution of conventional depth-profiling, broad-beam techniques (Auger, ESCA, ion scattering) is usually limited to about 3nm normal and several PM parallel to the interface. High resolution microanalysis of cross-sectional samples by EELS and EDXS in a field emission STEM instrument is limited by the probe diameter and spreading, and the de-localization of inelastic scattering to about 2nm (theoretically), both normal and parallel to the interface. However, to obtain such a resolution, doses of the order of 108 to 1010 electrons/ nm2 are required. In semiconductors and particularly in oxides such doses lead to significant radiation damage and mass loss, often to the point of perforation of the sample.


Author(s):  
T. Kizuka ◽  
N. Tanaka

Vapor phase epitaxial growth techniques are indispensable for production of thin film electric devices. Various structural analyses have been attempted to evaluate the epitaxial growth. Conventional transmission electron microscopy (CTEM) is a most useful method. In particular, it is known that a plan-view time-resolved CTEM of in-situ vacuum-deposition in a microscope can analyze each process of epitaxial growth. The nucleation in vacuum-deposition was also in-situ observed by a time-resolved high resolution electron microscopy (TRHREM). However many unresolved problems still remain in the studies of the epitaxial growth because it is difficult to observe the epitaxial interfaces less than a few nanometer under appropriate conditions. Much more advanced techniques are required for electron microscopy to obtain detailed information.In the present study, a TRHREM for the cross-sectional observation was developed to elucidate the epitaxial growth process in vacuum-deposition.Gold (Au) was vacuum-deposited on (001) surfaces of the magnesium oxide (MgO) substrates at room temperature in a specimen chamber of a 200-kV high-resolution electron microscope (JEOL, JEM2010).


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