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Register a new userTowards smooth (010) beta-Ga2O3 films homoepitaxially grown by plasma assisted molecular beam epitaxy: The impact of substrate offcut and metal-to-oxygen flux ratio
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Smooth interfaces and surfaces are beneficial for most (opto)electronic devices based on thin films and their heterostructures. For example, smoother interfaces in (010) beta-Ga2O3/(AlxGa1-x)2O3 heterostructures, whose roughness is ruled by that of the Ga2O3 layer, can enable higher mobility 2DEGs by reducing interface roughness scattering. To this end we experimentally prove that a substrate offcut along the [001] direction allows to obtain smooth beta-Ga2O3 layers in (010)-homoepitaxy under metal-rich conditions. Applying In-mediated metal-exchange catalysis (MEXCAT) in molecular beam epitaxy at high substrate temperatures (Tg = 900 {deg}C) we compare the morphology of layers grown on (010)-oriented substrates with different unintentional offcuts. The layer roughness is generally ruled by (i) (110) and (-110)-facets visible as elongated features along the [001] direction (rms < 0.5 nm), and (ii) trenches (5-10 nm deep) orthogonal to [001]. We show that an unintentional substrate offcut of only 0.1{deg} almost oriented along the [001] direction suppresses these trenches resulting in a smooth morphology with a roughness exclusively determined by the facets, i.e., rms 0.2 nm. Since we found the facet-and-trench morphology in layers grown by MBE with and without MEXCAT, we propose that the general growth mechanism for (010)-homoepitaxy is ruled by island growth whose coalescence results in the formation of the trenches. The presence of a substrate offcut in the [001] direction can allow for step-flow growth or island nucleation at the step edges, which prevents the formation of trenches. Moreover, we give experimental evidence for a decreasing surface diffusion length or increasing nucleation density with decreasing metal-to-oxygen flux ratio. Based on our results we can rule-out step bunching as cause of the trench formation as well as a surfactant-effect of indium during MEXCAT.
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