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Surface treatments of CdGeAs2 single crystals

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The performances of second harmonic generation (SHG) and optical parametric oscillator (OPO) in CdGeAs2 crystal are strongly influenced by surface quality. In this paper, the surfaces of samples were treated by mechanical polishing (MP), chemical polishing (CP), chemical–mechanical polishing (CMP) and CP following CMP closely (CMP + CP). Then, the surface state was characterized by optical microscopy (OM), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), atomic force microscopy (AFM) and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). AFM measurements show that an ultra-smooth surface is achieved after CMP + CP treatment and the roughness value is 0.98 nm. Meanwhile, the roughness of the surfaces treated by MP, CP and CMP are 4.53, 2.83 and 1.38 nm, respectively. By XRD rocking curves, the diffraction peak which belongs to the wafer treated by CMP + CP is the highest in intensity and best symmetrical in shape. XPS analysis indicates that Ge4+ proportions of GeO2 in total Ge content of CdGeAs2 wafers’ surface after MP, CP, CMP and CMP + CP treatment are 27.6%, 42.8%, 6.1% and 30.3%, respectively.

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This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 50732005) and the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (No. 007AA03Z443).

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Huang, W., Zhao, BJ., Zhu, SF. et al. Surface treatments of CdGeAs2 single crystals. Rare Met. 38, 683–688 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12598-016-0818-0

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