Seminars in Japan
It has become a good tradition: November, 29th and 30th 2011 for the 8th time LayTec held its private seminar in Tokyo and Nagoya, Japan. New in-situ measurement approaches for multiple applications as well as product news were presented. Prof. Sugiyama of University of Tokyo reported on successful strain compensation of InGaAs/GaAsP multiple quantum wells (MQWs) using both EpiRAS and EpiCurve® TT for novel solar cell applications on GaAs. Interestingly, the H2-purging and subsequent As-/P-stabilization of the InGaAs surface directly influences the resulting bulk strain of MQW structures. He clarified that at least 3 seconds with only TBAs and TBP flow are necessary before TMGa gas flow restarts for GaAsP well growth. Only runs using this technique showed completely flat wafers after MQW growth (see Fig. 1). (Please find Fig. 1 in our newsletter)
Prof. Sugiyama and his team clarified the physical reason of this behavior by RAS investigations of the surface stabilization process (see Fig. 2). (Please find Fig. 2 in our newsletter)
Prof. Miyake of Mie University presented high crystal quality GaN on sapphire wafers by controlling overgrowth of stripepatterned GaN buffers including stripe-voids from former SiO2 masking. The overgrowth of this GaN stripe-void-structure with a GaN cap layer was optimized by precise control of the anisotropic, aspherical bow of the wafer using an EpiCurve® TT metrology system.
(Please find Fig. 3 in our newsletter)
Last but not least examples of curvature engineering for GaN on Si devices were presented by Dr. Yuto Tomita of LayTec AG. All talks of the seminars in Tokyo and Nagoya are now available for download from our website! To obtain a log-in ID please contact info(at)laytec.de. We thank all our speakers for their excellent presentations and our partner Marubun for their great support.
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