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  • Master Thesis
    Molecular Beam Epitaxial Growth of Znse on (211)b Gaas
    (Izmir Institute of Technology, 2017) Yavaş, Begüm; Ateş, Serkan; Özçelik, Serdar
    The Mercury Cadmium Telluride (Hg1-xCdxTe) play important role for infrared (IR) focal plane array application. It is grown on variety alternative substrates which are Si, Ge, GaAs or GaSb. When GaAs is compared with the others alternative substrate, it is more preferable due to having good surface polarity and also easily commercially available of high quality. When HgCdTe epilayer is grown directly on the GaAs substrate, there exist some dislocations in the epilayer due to large lattice mismatch between HgCdTe and GaAs substrate.The CdTe semiconductor is grown like a buffer layer to reduce dislocation in the HgCdTe epilayer grown on GaAs or other alternative substrate [1].The crystal quality of CdTe buffer layer directly affected HgCdTe epilayer. Therefore, CdTe needed to be low defect density.Because of %14.6 lattice mismatch between CdTe and GaAs [2], some defects are observed in CdTe buffer layer. ZnSe epilayer can be used to decrease lattice mismatch between CdTe and alternative substrate. When ZnSe interlayers are grown with high quality, CdTe affects positively. The aim of this theses is the growth of ZnSe epilayer films on (211) GaAs substrates by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE). The effect of growth temperature, VI/II flux ratio and deoxidation process with In and As were studied in this study. Crystal qualities of films were investigated by using X-ray diffraction. The surface morphology of ZnSe films were analyzed by atomic force microscopy and Nomarski microscopy. Vibrational phonon modes, thermal and elastic strains of ZnSe epilayer were observed by using Raman spectroscopy.
  • Master Thesis
    Characterization of Molecular Beam Epitaxially Crown Cdte Layers Over Gaas by Spectroscopic Ellipsometry
    (Izmir Institute of Technology, 2014) Günnar, Merve; Selamet, Yusuf
    The infrared detectors consist of two main parts that are optical elements and sensing elements. The sensor component is generally formed by semiconductor materials that can detect Infrared (IR) light which cannot be seen by human eye. Mercury Cadmium Telluride (MCT, HgCdTe) is widely used as a sensor material for this purpose. The adjustable bandgap (0-1.5 eV) which corresponds to energies of IR light can be obtained by changing the composition x of cadmium (Cd) in the ternary alloy Hg1-xCdxTe. HgCdTe has very high quantum efficiency for the detectible IR wavelengths in the atmospheric windows. HgCdTe which has a great importance in defense industry as an IR detecting material should be grown with high crystallinity in order to obtain high resolution images even under bad weather conditions. In addition, HgCdTe must be grown uniformly over a large area in order to have large format and high operability focal plane arrays. The defect density of HgCdTe strongly depends on the lattice mismatch between substrate and HgCdTe. In order to reduce the lattice mismatch which causes dislocations in HgCdTe the best suitable option is to grow Cadmium Telluride (CdTe) buffer layer on a substrate before growing HgCdTe. Studies have been focusing on semiconductors which are Gallium Arsenide (GaAs), Silicon (Si) and Germanium (Ge) as alternative substrates for CdTe growth. In this study, the CdTe films grown on (211) oriented GaAs wafers by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) were characterized by ex-situ spectroscopic ellipsometry (SE). The properties of CdTe films such as thickness, surface roughness and optical constants were characterized by comparison with the growth conditions. It was also investigated that how these properties vary over the film surface. Characterization results were compared to those obtained by atomic force microscopy (AFM), Nomarski microscopy, Fourier transformation infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and X-ray diffraction (XRD). The temperature dependencies of the optical properties of the material obtained by SE were also investigated.