Title :
Role of stress on impurity free disordering of quantu m dots
Author :
Barik, S. ; Fu, L. ; Tan, H.H. ; Jagadish, C.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. Mater. Eng., Australian Nat. Univ., Canberra, ACT
fDate :
July 28 2008-Aug. 1 2008
Abstract :
We discuss the role of stress on diffusion of vacancies and interstitials theoretically. The stresses induced by SiO2 and TiO2 dielectric layers on InP and GaAs based QD structures are calculated and some reported quantum dot intermixing results are explained by a stress-induced forced interdiffusion model.
Keywords :
III-V semiconductors; chemical interdiffusion; dielectric thin films; gallium arsenide; indium compounds; interstitials; semiconductor quantum dots; silicon compounds; titanium compounds; vacancies (crystal); GaAs; InP; SiO2; TiO2; dielectric layers; impurity free disordering; intermixing; interstitials; quantum dots; stress-induced forced interdiffusion model; vacancy diffusion; Compressive stress; Dielectrics; Equations; Gallium arsenide; Impurities; Indium phosphide; Quantum dots; Rapid thermal annealing; Tensile stress; Thermal stresses; impurity free disordering; quantum dot intermixing; stress;
Conference_Titel :
Optoelectronic and Microelectronic Materials and Devices, 2008. COMMAD 2008. Conference on
Conference_Location :
Sydney, SA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2716-1
Electronic_ISBN :
1097-2137
DOI :
10.1109/COMMAD.2008.4802131