Depth-dependent defect analysis in RBS/channeling

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-2-1990

Abstract

Rutherford backscattering combined with channeling is used as a measure of the crystalline quality of thin films. For lattice mismatched structures the channeling spectrum implicitly contains the quantitative depth distribution of dislocation defects through a deconvolution analysis that takes into account the rate of dechanneling with depth. We describe a sputtering/depth profiling procedure to extract the defect density which tests this deconvolution procedure. It is shown that the analysis can severely underestimate the defect density at large depths. We show, by further analysis, that this discrepancy can be resolved when energy loss straggling is taken into account. The sputtering/defect profiling procedure is applied to the important system of GaAs grown onto Si. © 1990.

Identifier

0025235684 (Scopus)

Publication Title

Nuclear Inst and Methods in Physics Research B

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.1016/0168-583X(90)90865-R

ISSN

0168583X

First Page

417

Last Page

419

Issue

1-4

Volume

45

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