Journal of Crystal Growth, Vol.210, No.4, 471-477, 2000
Directional solidification of InxGa1-xAs
We have investigated a constitutional supercooling and segregation phenomena in InxGa1-xAs crystals unidirectionally solidified in a Vertical system. The constitutional supercooling generates characteristic fluctuations of composition along the growth direction and this can be explained by a free nucleation ahead from the growth interface. The macroscopic compositional profiles of the grown crystals suggest that a transport of solute is mainly dominated by the diffusion. Such a growth mode is partly attributed to the difference in density between InAs and GaAs,
Keywords:InxGa1-xAs;directional solidification;constitutional supercooling;diffusion;uniform composition