Effects of substrate misorientation and growth rate on ordering in GaInP

Epitaxial layers of GaxIn1−xP with x≊0.52 have been grown by organometallic vapor‐phase epitaxy on GaAs substrates misoriented from the (001) plane in the [110] direction by angles ϑm, of 0°, 3°, 6°, and 9°. For each substrate orientation growth rates rg of 1, 2, and 4 μm/h have been used. The ordering was characterized using transmission electron diffraction (TED), dark‐field imaging, and photoluminescence. The (110) cross‐sectional images show domains of the Cu‐Pt structure separated by antiphase boundaries (APBs). The domain size and shape and the degree of order are found to be strongly affected by both the substrate misorientation and the growth rate. For example, lateral domain dimensions range from 50 A for layers grown with rg=4 μm/h and ϑm=0° to 2500 A for rg=1 μm/h and ϑm=9°. The APBs generally propagate from the substrate/epilayer interface to the top surface at an angle to the (001) plane that increases dramatically as the angle of misorientation increases. The angle is nearly independent of ...

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