A temperature activated crossover between two nucleation regimes is observed in the behavior of Ga droplet nucleation on vicinal GaAs(111)A substrates with a miscut of 2° towards (-1-12). At low temperature (<400 °C) the droplet density dependence on temperature and flux is compatible with droplet nucleation by two-dimensional diffusion. Increasing the temperature, a different regime is observed, whose scaling behavior is compatible with a reduction of the dimensionality of the nucleation regime from two to one dimension. We attribute such behavior to a presence of finite width terraces and a sizeable Ehrlich-Schwöbel barrier at the terrace edge, which hinders adatom diffusion in the direction perpendicular to the steps.

Tuktamyshev, A., Fedorov, A., Bietti, S., Tsukamoto, S., Sanguinetti, S. (2019). Temperature Activated Dimensionality Crossover in the Nucleation of Quantum Dots by Droplet Epitaxy on GaAs(111)A Vicinal Substrates. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, 9(1), 14520 [10.1038/s41598-019-51161-5].

Temperature Activated Dimensionality Crossover in the Nucleation of Quantum Dots by Droplet Epitaxy on GaAs(111)A Vicinal Substrates

Tuktamyshev A.
Primo
Membro del Collaboration Group
;
Fedorov A.
Membro del Collaboration Group
;
Bietti S.
Secondo
Membro del Collaboration Group
;
Tsukamoto S.
Penultimo
Membro del Collaboration Group
;
Sanguinetti S.
Ultimo
Membro del Collaboration Group
2019

Abstract

A temperature activated crossover between two nucleation regimes is observed in the behavior of Ga droplet nucleation on vicinal GaAs(111)A substrates with a miscut of 2° towards (-1-12). At low temperature (<400 °C) the droplet density dependence on temperature and flux is compatible with droplet nucleation by two-dimensional diffusion. Increasing the temperature, a different regime is observed, whose scaling behavior is compatible with a reduction of the dimensionality of the nucleation regime from two to one dimension. We attribute such behavior to a presence of finite width terraces and a sizeable Ehrlich-Schwöbel barrier at the terrace edge, which hinders adatom diffusion in the direction perpendicular to the steps.
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GaAs, quantum dots, droplet epitaxy, miscuted substrate
English
2019
9
1
14520
14520
open
Tuktamyshev, A., Fedorov, A., Bietti, S., Tsukamoto, S., Sanguinetti, S. (2019). Temperature Activated Dimensionality Crossover in the Nucleation of Quantum Dots by Droplet Epitaxy on GaAs(111)A Vicinal Substrates. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, 9(1), 14520 [10.1038/s41598-019-51161-5].
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