Molecular beam epitaxial growth and structure of cobalt film on GaAs(001) surface

作者:Wu Yi Zheng; Ding Hai Feng; Jing Chao; Wu Di; Liu Guo Lei; Dong Guo Sheng; Jin Xiao Feng
来源:Acta Physica Sinica, 1998, 47(3): 465-466.

摘要

By using in-situ reflection high energy electron diffraction, the epitaxial growth of Co films on GaAs(001) surface is studied. When the growth temperature was 150°C, the growth process of Co films can be divided into three stages. The crystal structure of the first 3 nm of the Co film is body-center-cubic (bcc) metastable phase. Then the next 4 nm film is a complicated polycrystalline phase. After the thickness exceeds 7 nm, the Co film is a single-crystalline hexagonal-close-packed (hcp) stable phase. This new result clears up the controversy in former experiments about the structure of the Co epilayer, and establishes, for the first time to our knowledge, a clear physical picture of the epitaxial growth of Co films on GaAs(001).

  • 出版日期1998

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