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Density behaviors of Ge nanodots self-assembled by ion beam sputtering deposition |
Xiong Fei (熊飞)a b, Yang Tao (杨涛)a, Song Zhao-Ning (宋肇宁)c, Yang Pei-Zhi (杨培志)b |
a Research Institute of Engineering and Technology, Yunnan University, Kunming 650091, China; b Key Laboratory of Education Ministry for Advance Technique and Preparation of Renewable Energy Materials, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming 650092, China; c Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Toledo, Toledo OH 43606, USA |
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Abstract Self-assembled Ge nanodots with areal number density up to 2.33×1010 cm-2 and aspect ratio larger than 0.12 are prepared by ion beam sputtering deposition. The dot density, a function of deposition rate and Ge coverage, is observed to be limited mainly by the transformation from two-dimensional precursors to three-dimensional islands, and to be associated with the adatom behaviors of attachment and detachment from the islands. An unusual increasing temperature dependence of nanodot density is also revealed when high ion energy is employed in sputtering deposition, and is shown to be related with the breaking down of the superstrained wetting layer. This result is attributed to the interaction between energetic atoms and the growth surface, which mediates island nucleation.
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Received: 18 July 2012
Revised: 23 November 2012
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Fund: Project supported by the Joint Fund of National Natural Science Foundation of China and Yunnan Province, China (Grant No. U1037604), the Applied Basic Research Foundations of Yunnan Province, China (Grant No. 2009CD003), and the Scientific Research Foundation of Yunnan University, China (Grant No. 2009E28Q). |
Corresponding Authors:
Xiong Fei, Yang Pei-Zhi
E-mail: f_xiong888@yahoo.com.cn; pzhyang@hotmail.com
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Xiong Fei (熊飞), Yang Tao (杨涛), Song Zhao-Ning (宋肇宁), Yang Pei-Zhi (杨培志) Density behaviors of Ge nanodots self-assembled by ion beam sputtering deposition 2013 Chin. Phys. B 22 058104
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