Direct MOCVD epitaxy of GaAsP on SiGe virtual substrate without growth of SiGe

Abstract GaAsP has important applications for solar cells and light-emitting diodes on silicon substrates. Here we demonstrate that GaAsP can be directly grown by metal-organic chemical vapor deposition on previously-prepared lattice-matched SiGe virtual substrates, without prior in-situ growth of SiGe. By optimizing the growth pressure and AsH 3 pre-exposure time, the surface morphology of GaAsP is improved and the pinhole densities are reduced by two orders of magnitude from 2.4×10 7 /cm 2 to 1.2×10 5 /cm 2 . The physics is suggested to be an optimization between complete As-termination and AsH 3 etching effect of SiGe surface.

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