Molecular beam epitaxy of GeTe-Sb2Te3 phase change materials studied by X-ray diffraction

  • Shayduk, Roman
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Publication date
January 2010
Publisher
Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Language
English

Abstract

The integration of phase change materials into semiconductor heterostructures may lead to the development of a new generation of high density non-volatile phase change memories. Epitaxial phase change materials allow to study the detailed structural changes during the phase transition and to determine the scaling limits of the memory. This work is dedicated to the epitaxial growth of Ge-Sb-Te phase change alloys on GaSb(001). We deposit Ge-Sb-Te (GST) films on GaSb(001) substrates by means of molecular beam epitaxy (MBE). The film orientation and lattice constant evolution is determined in real time during growth using grazing incidence X-ray diffraction (GID). The nucleation stage of the growth is studied \emph{in situ} using reflection hi...

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