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The initial stages of HgCdTe growth on Al2O3, GaAs, CdTe, and KCl substrates have been studied by electron diffraction. HgCdTe films were produced by pulsed laser deposition and isothermal vapor phase epitaxy. InGaAs films were grown by isothermal chloride epitaxy on GaAs substrates. In the initial stages of the growth process, we observed a transition from an amorphous to a textured polycrystalline phase and then to a mosaic single-crystal structure. We have calculated the critical size of crystalline grains below which amorphization occurs in II-VI and III-V compounds. The critical grain size agrees with the grain size of the disordered (amorphous) phase that forms in the initial stage of epitaxy. We have determined some characteristics of the heterostructures: critical film thickness below which pseudomorphic growth is possible without misfit dislocation generation, elastic stress in the epitaxial system, surface density of dangling bonds at dislocations, and the critical island radius above which no interfacial misfit dislocations are generated.
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Original Russian Text © I.V. Kurilo, S.K. Guba, I.O. Rudyi, I.S. Virt, 2012, published in Neorganicheskie Materialy, 2012, Vol. 48, No. 1, pp. 21–25.
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Kurilo, I.V., Guba, S.K., Rudyi, I.O. et al. Transition from a disordered to a crystalline state in II–VI and III–V films. Inorg Mater 48, 16–20 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0020168511120107
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