Anharmonic Keating model for group-IV semiconductors with application to the lattice dynamics in alloys of Si, Ge, and C

H Rücker, M Methfessel - Physical Review B, 1995 - APS
A generalization of the Keating model is given which treats anharmonic effects in a much
improved manner. The dependence of the bond-stretching and bond-bending force …

Carbon-mediated effects in silicon and in silicon-related materials

W Skorupa, RA Yankov - Materials chemistry and physics, 1996 - Elsevier
The present review deals with effects caused by the presence of carbon in single-crystal
silicon, as well as in some silicon-related materials. Three main areas are covered, with …

Growth and properties of strained Si1-x-yGexCy layers

SC Jain, HJ Osten, B Dietrich… - … science and technology, 1995 - iopscience.iop.org
Advances made in the growth and properties of CSi and CSiGe pseudomorphic strained
layers are reviewed. The solubility of C in Si is small (3.5* 10 17 atoms/cm 3 near the melting …

Optical and electronic properties of SiGeC alloys grown on Si substrates

J Kolodzey, PR Berger, BA Orner, D Hits, F Chen… - Journal of crystal …, 1995 - Elsevier
Metastable Si1− x− yGexCy alloys were grown by molecular beam epitaxy on (100) Si
substrates. Solid elemental sources were used for the Si and Ge beams, and a resistively …

Phonons as a probe of short-range order in alloys

H Rücker, M Methfessel, B Dietrich, K Pressel… - Physical Review B, 1996 - APS
This paper shows that by combining theoretical and experimental results for local Si-C
phonon modes in dilute Si 1− x C x alloys, information concerning the short-range order can …

Strain relaxation in tensile-strained layers on Si (001)

HJ Osten, D Endisch, E Bugiel, B Dietrich… - Semiconductor …, 1996 - iopscience.iop.org
We investigated in detail the strain relaxation behaviour of metastable tensile-strained
epilayers on Si (001) by comparing the layers before and after an annealing step using a …

The application of approximate density functionals to complex systems

OF Sankey, AA Demkov, W Windl… - … journal of quantum …, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
The application of density functional theory to complex systems requires simplifications. We
describe our methodology, which uses the Harris functional, and its self‐consistent …

Raman spectroscopy study of microscopic strain in epitaxial Si1− x− yGexCy alloys

J Menendez, P Gopalan, GS Spencer, N Cave… - Applied physics …, 1995 - pubs.aip.org
Raman spectroscopy is used to characterize the microscopic bond structure of Si1x yGexCy
alloys epitaxially grown on Si substrates by C implantation into Si1xGex epilayers and …

Defect Characterization of HfTiOx Gate Dielectrics on SiGe Heterolayers Using Inelastic Tunneling Spectroscopy

PP Maiti, C Mukherjee, A Bag, S Mallik… - Journal of Electronic …, 2024 - Springer
Ultra-thin HfTiOx dielectric films (Ti~ 26.6%) of thickness~ 12 nm have been deposited
through an RF magnetron co-sputtering process on strained Si0. 81Ge0. 19 substrates …

Optical transitions in strained Si1−yCy layers on Si(001)

W Kissinger, M Weidner, HJ Osten, M Eichler - Applied physics letters, 1994 - pubs.aip.org
The effect of the carbon content on the optical transitions of Si1− y C y layers grown
pseudomorphically on Si (001) substrates was investigated by spectroscopic ellipsometry …