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Surface Texture and Crystallinity Variation of ZnTe Epilayers Grown on the Step-Terrace Structure of the Sapphire Substrate

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ZnTe/sapphire heterostructures were focused, and ZnTe thin films were prepared on highly mismatched sapphire substrates by molecular beam epitaxy. A sapphire substrate possessing an atomically-smooth step-terrace structure was used to improve the crystallinity and morphology of the produced ZnTe film. The growth mode of the ZnTe thin film on a sapphire substrate with an atomically-smooth step-terrace structure was found to shift to a two-dimensional growth mode, and a ZnTe thin film possessing a flat surface was obtained. The crystallographic properties of the ZnTe film suggested that the resulting layer consisted of a single (111)-oriented domain. The photoluminescence property was also improved, and the interface lattice alignment between the ZnTe and sapphire was also affected by the atomically-smooth step-terrace structure.

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  1. Department of Electrical Engineering and Bioscience, Waseda University, Shinjuku, Tokyo, 169-8555, Japan

    Taizo Nakasu, Takeru Kizu, Sotaro Yamashita, Takayuki Aiba, Shota Hattori, Wei-Che Sun, Kosuke Taguri, Fukino Kazami, Yuki Hashimoto, Shun Ozaki & Masakazu Kobayashi

  2. Kagami Memorial Research Institute for Materials and Technology, Waseda University, Shinjuku, Tokyo, 169-0051, Japan

    Masakazu Kobayashi

  3. Technology Development Center, JX Nippon Mining & Metals Corporation, Hitachi, Ibaraki, 317-0056, Japan

    Toshiaki Asahi

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Nakasu, T., Kizu, T., Yamashita, S. et al. Surface Texture and Crystallinity Variation of ZnTe Epilayers Grown on the Step-Terrace Structure of the Sapphire Substrate. J. Electron. Mater. 45, 2127–2132 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11664-016-4386-8

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