title: Structural evolution of GeMn/Ge superlattices grown by molecular beam epitaxy under different growth conditions.
abstract: GeMn/Ge epitaxial 'superlattices' grown by molecular beam epitaxy with different growth conditions have been systematically investigated by transmission electron microscopy. It is revealed that periodic arrays of GeMn nanodots can be formed on Ge and GaAs substrates at low temperature (approximately 70°C) due to the matched lattice constants of Ge (5.656 Å) and GaAs (5.653 Å), while a periodic Ge/GeMn superlattice grown on Si showed disordered GeMn nanodots with a large amount of stacking faults, which can be explained by the fact that Ge and Si have a large lattice mismatch. Moreover, by varying growth conditions, the GeMn/Ge superlattices can be manipulated from having disordered GeMn nanodots to ordered coherent nanodots and then to ordered nanocolumns.PACS: 75.50.Pp; 61.72.-y; 66.30.Pa; 68.37.L.
authors.affiliation: Division of Materials, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia. y.wang4@uq.edu.au.
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