Scaling growth rates for perovskite oxide virtual substrates on silicon

Jason Lapano, Matthew Brahlek, Lei Zhang, Joseph Roth, Alexej Pogrebnyakov, Roman Engel-Herbert

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Abstract

The availability of native substrates is a cornerstone in the development of microelectronic technologies relying on epitaxial films. If native substrates are not available, virtual substrates - crystalline buffer layers epitaxially grown on a structurally dissimilar substrate - offer a solution. Realizing commercially viable virtual substrates requires the growth of high-quality films at high growth rates for large-scale production. We report the stoichiometric growth of SrTiO3 exceeding 600 nm hr−1. This tenfold increase in growth rate compared to SrTiO3 grown on silicon by conventional methods is enabled by a self-regulated growth window accessible in hybrid molecular beam epitaxy. Overcoming the materials integration challenge for complex oxides on silicon using virtual substrates opens a path to develop new electronic devices in the More than Moore era and silicon integrated quantum computation hardware.

Original languageEnglish
Article number2464
JournalNature Communications
Volume10
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 1 2019

Funding

J.M.L. and R.E.H. acknowledge National Science Foundation through the Penn State MRSEC program DMR-1420620, J.R. acknowledges DMR-1629477 and support through the NSF graduate student fellowship, M.B. and R.E.H. acknowledge the Department of Energy (Grant DE-SC0012375), L.Z. acknowledges the National Science Foundation through DMR-1352502. We thank Dr. Arnab Sen Gupta for assisting in growth of samples, Profs. Jon-Paul Maria and Venkat Gopalan, as well as Drs. Craig Eaton and Julian Walker for helpful discussions.

FundersFunder number
National Science Foundation
Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences1352502, 1420620
Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences
U.S. Department of EnergyDMR-1352502, DE-SC0012375
U.S. Department of Energy
Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, Harvard UniversityDMR-1420620, DMR-1629477
Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, Harvard University

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