Author Affiliations
1JARA-Fundamentals of Future Information Technology (JARA-FIT) and RWTH Aachen University, 52074 Aachen, Germany2Peter Grünberg Institute (PGI-9), Forschungszentrum Jülich, 52425 Jülich, Germany3Key Laboratory of Semiconductor Materials Science, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Beijing Key Laboratory of Low Dimensional Semiconductor Materials and Devices, Beijing 100083, China4College of Materials Science and Opto-Electronic Technology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 101804, Chinashow less
Fig. 1. (Color online) The bandgap energy versus lattice constant of the III–V semiconductor material system. Reproduced with permission from Ref. [10]. Copyright 2013, Miguel ángel Caro Bayo.
Fig. 2. (Color online) (a) The number of publications and (b) times cited on BGaAs per year since 2000. Keyword: “BGaAs”. Web of Science search conducted: August 9, 2019.
Fig. 3. (Color online) Calculated bandgap versus lattice-constant for III–V compounds including B-doped alloy. Reproduced with permission from Ref. [26]. Copyright 2019, OSA Publishing.
Fig. 4. Rocking curves of BGaAs and BxGa1–x–yInyAs. Reproduced with permission from Ref. [27]. Copyright 2000, AIP Publishing.
Fig. 5. (Color online) XRD rocking curves of the (004) peak for a GaAsBi ternary alloy and BGaAsBi alloy with different boron content. Reproduced with permission from Ref. [29]. Copyright 2012, Elsevier.
Fig. 6. (Color online) (a) Apparent boron concentration and (b) surface roughness versus Bi flux for samples. Reproduced with permission from Ref. [30]. Copyright 2012, Elsevier.
Fig. 7. AFM images of the surface with increasing boron content. Reproduced with permission from Refs. [17, 22]. Copyright 2003, AIP Publishing.
Fig. 8. (a) Temperature dependence of PL peak energy of BGaAs epilayers. Reproduced with permission from Ref. [36]. Copyright 2010, Elsevier. (b) Low-temperature PL spectra of BInGaAs epilayer and quantum well. Reproduced with permission from Ref. [39]. Copyright 2012, Elsevier.
Fig. 9. (Color online) Schematic of spatial potential fluctuation and possible paths of carrier movement. Reproduced with permission from Ref. [41]. Copyright 2016, Elsevier.
Fig. 10. AFM images of 200 nm BGaAs/GaAs epilayers with various diborane flow-rates. Reproduced with permission from Ref. [44]. Copyright 2008, Elsevier.
Fig. 11. Boron composition of BGaAs as a function of boron concentration in the gas phase. Reproduced with permission from Ref. [50]. Copyright 2008, Elsevier.
Fig. 12. Cross-sectional TEM images of (a) InGaAs/GaAs and (b) BInGaAs/GaAs. Reproduced with permission from Ref. [24]. Copyright 2013, AIP Publishing.
Fig. 13. (a) X-ray rocking curve of a BGaAs ternary. (b) Boron composition as a function of substrate temperature. Reproduced with permission from Ref. [54]. Copyright 2004, Elsevier.
Fig. 14. (Color online) AFM images for BGaAs grown at different conditions. Reproduced with permission from Ref. [50]. Copyright 2017, Elsevier.
Fig. 15. (Color online) (a) I–V measurements on nanowires with and without boron; (b) TEM image of nanowires. Reproduced with permission from Ref. [50]. Copyright 2019, John Wiley and Sons.
Fig. 16. (Color online) (a) ω–2θ scans of BGaAs films grown on a GaP buffer. (b) Reciprocal space mapping (RSM) of BGaAs layers grown on a GaP buffer. Reproduced with permission from Ref. [50]. Copyright 2018, IEEE.
Fig. 17. (Color online) XRD of BGaAs films grown on GaAs substrates. Reproduced with permission from Ref. [26]. Copyright 2019, OSA Publishing.
Fig. 18. (Color online) Room temperature photoluminescence of BGaAs and BGaInAs alloy. Reproduced with permission from Ref. [26]. Copyright 2019, OSA Publishing.
Fig. 19. Comparison of the boron concentration in GaP and GaAs. Reproduced with permission Ref. [50]. Copyright 2013, Elsevier.
Fig. 20. A comparison of calculated mixing enthalpies for GaAs1−xNx and BxGa1−xAs. Reproduced with permission from Ref. [59]. Copyright 2000, AIP Publishing.
System | bVD | bCE | bSR | btot | bthe | bexp |
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Mixed cation | | | | | | | BAlN | 4.88 | 1.62 | –1.05 | 5.45 | | | BGaN | 7.47 | 1.47 | –1.66 | 7.28 | 4.3 (x = 0.6)
| | BInN | 14.73 | 2.03 | –3.29 | 13.48 | | | BAlP | 4.41 | 1.20 | –0.95 | 4.65 | | | BGaP | 4.61 | 1.04 | –1.00 | 4.65 | | | BInP | 8.74 | 1.61 | –1.92 | 8.43 | | | BAlAs | 2.77 | 1.17 | –0.59 | 3.35 | | | BGaAs | 3.03 | 1.02 | –0.66 | 3.39 | 3.5 (x < 0.6)
| 2.3 (x < 0.4)
| BInAs | 6.08 | 1.58 | –1.34 | 6.32 | | | BAlSb | 0.15 | 1.07 | –0.03 | 1.18 | | | BGaSb | –0.17 | 0.92 | –0.09 | 0.65 | | | BInSb | 0.70 | 1.48 | –0.08 | 2.10 | | | Mixed anion | | | | | | | BNP | 2.10 | 1.94 | 3.89 | 7.94 | 9.92 | | BNAs | 5.13 | 2.29 | 4.87 | 12.30 | 9.33 | | BNSb | 14.30 | 3.52 | 1.96 | 19.78 | 10.27, 21.19 | | BPSb | 4.48 | 0.56 | 1.76 | 6.80 | 0.038 | | BPAs | 0.52 | 0.34 | 0.00 | 0.87 | –0.06 | | BAsSb | 1.94 | 0.47 | 1.10 | 3.50 | 0.10 | |
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Table 1. Calculated bowing btot as well as its three contributions in eV. Reproduced with permission from Ref. [23]. Copyright 2007, Elsevier.