Extraction of large valence-band energy offsets and comparison to theoretical values for strained-Si/strained- Ge type-II heterostructures on relaxed SiGe substrates
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Metal-oxide-semiconductor capacitors were fabricated on type-II staggered gap strained-Si/strained-Ge heterostructures epitaxially grown on relaxed SiGe substrates of various Ge fractions. Quasistatic quantummechanical capacitance-voltage (CV) simulations were fit to experimental CV measurements to extract the band alignment of the strained layers. The valence-band offset of the strained-Si/strained-Ge heterostructure was found to be 770, 760, and 670 meV for 35, 42, and 52% Ge in the relaxed SiGe substrate, respectively. These values are approximately 100 meV larger than the usually recommended band offsets for modeling Si/Ge structures. It is shown that the larger valence-band offsets found here are consistent with an 800-meV average valence-band offset between Si and Ge, which also explains the type-II band alignment observed in strained-Si1−xGex on unstrained-Si heterostructures.
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