半導体結晶成長の理解を深める研究(RPI Researchers Advance Understanding of Semiconductor Crystal Growth)

2025-11-11 レンセラー工科大学 (RPI)

レンセラー工科大学(RPI)などの研究チームは、半導体結晶の「リモートエピタキシー」成長機構を大幅に拡張する成果を報告した。これまで1nm以下の薄いバッファ層でしか成立しないと考えられていたが、炭素層7nm厚でも結晶が基板に整列することを実証。基板の欠陥(転位)による長距離静電相互作用が成長を媒介することを突き止めた。ZnO/GaN系モデルやシミュレーションで再現性を確認し、転写したペロブスカイト膜で動作する光検出器も試作した。欠陥を積極的に設計することで、量子デバイスなど精密結晶制御が可能になるという。成果は Nature 誌に掲載。

半導体結晶成長の理解を深める研究(RPI Researchers Advance Understanding of Semiconductor Crystal Growth)
A schematic diagram of the remote epitaxy process. Panel a shows the conventional process with a graphene layer 0.35 nm thick, while panel b illustrates the process using a much thicker buffer layer.

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長距離リモートエピタキシー Long-distance remote epitaxy

Ru Jia,Yan Xin,Mark Potter,Jie Jiang,Zixu Wang,Hanxue Ma,Zhihao Zhang,Zhizhuo Liang,Lifu Zhang,Zonghuan Lu,Ruizhe Yang,Saloni Pendse,Yang Hu,Kai Peng,Yilin Meng,Wei Bao,Jun Liu,Gwo-Ching Wang,Toh-Ming Lu,Yunfeng Shi,Hanwei Gao & Jian Shi
Nature  Published:01 October 2025
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09484-z

Abstract

Remote epitaxy, in which an epitaxial relation is established between a film and a substrate through remote interactions, enables the development of high-quality single crystalline epilayers and their transfer to and integration with other technologically crucial substates1,2. It is commonly believed that in remote epitaxy, the distance within which the remote interaction can play a leading part in the epitaxial process is less than 1 nm, as the atomically resolved fluctuating electric potential decays very rapidly to a negligible value after a few atomic distances3. Here we show that it is possible to achieve remote epitaxy when the epilayer–substrate distance is as large as 2–7 nm. We experimentally demonstrate long-distance remote epitaxy of CsPbBr3 film on an NaCl substrate, KCl film on a KCl substrate and ZnO microrods on GaN, and show that a dislocation in the GaN substrate exists immediately below every remotely epitaxial ZnO microrod. These findings indicate that remote epitaxy could be designed and engineered by means of harnessing defect-mediated long-distance remote interactions.

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