notes = "mbe 3c-sic on si and 6h-sic",
}
+@Article{fissel96,
+ author = "Andreas Fissel and Ute Kaiser and Kay Pfennighaus and
+ Bernd Schr{\"{o}}ter and Wolfgang Richter",
+ collaboration = "",
+ title = "Growth of 6{H}--Si{C} on 6{H}--Si{C}(0001) by
+ migration enhanced epitaxy controlled to an atomic
+ level using surface superstructures",
+ publisher = "AIP",
+ year = "1996",
+ journal = "Applied Physics Letters",
+ volume = "68",
+ number = "9",
+ pages = "1204--1206",
+ keywords = "MICROSTRUCTURE; MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY; MORPHOLOGY;
+ NUCLEATION; SILICON CARBIDES; SURFACE RECONSTRUCTION;
+ SURFACE STRUCTURE",
+ URL = "http://link.aip.org/link/?APL/68/1204/1",
+ doi = "10.1063/1.115969",
+ notes = "ss mbe sic, superstructure, reconstruction",
+}
+
+@Article{righi03,
+ title = "Ab initio Simulations of Homoepitaxial Si{C} Growth",
+ author = "M. C. Righi and C. A. Pignedoli and R. Di Felice and
+ C. M. Bertoni and A. Catellani",
+ journal = "Phys. Rev. Lett.",
+ volume = "91",
+ number = "13",
+ pages = "136101",
+ numpages = "4",
+ year = "2003",
+ month = sep,
+ doi = "10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.136101",
+ publisher = "American Physical Society",
+ notes = "dft calculations mbe sic growth",
+}
+
@Article{borders71,
author = "J. A. Borders and S. T. Picraux and W. Beezhold",
collaboration = "",
The alternative attempt to grow SiC on SiC substrates has shown to drastically reduce the concentration of defects in deposited layers.
By CVD, both, the 3C \cite{kong88,powell90} as well as the 6H \cite{kong88_2,powell90_2} polytype could be successfully grown.
-In order to obtain the homoepitactically grown 6H polytype, off-axis 6H-SiC wafers are required as a substrate \cite{kimoto93}.
+In order to obtain the homoepitaxially grown 6H polytype, off-axis 6H-SiC wafers are required as a substrate \cite{kimoto93}.
%In the so called step-controlled epitaxy, lateral growth proceeds from atomic steps without the necessity of preceding nucleation events.
Investigations indicate that in the so-called step-controlled epitaxy, crystal growth proceeds through the adsorbtion of Si species at atomic steps and their carbonization by hydrocarbon molecules.
This growth mechanism does not require two-dimensional nucleation.
Instead, crystal growth is governed by mass transport, i.e. the diffusion of reactants in a stagnant layer.
In contrast, layers of the 3C polytype are formed on exactly oriented \hkl(0 0 0 1) 6H-SiC substrates by two-dimensional nucleation on terraces.
+{\color{red} Source of APB defects ...}
However, lateral 3C-SiC growth was also observed on low tilt angle off-axis substrates originating from intentionally induced dislocations \cite{powell91}.
Additionally, 6H-SiC was observed on clean substrates even for a tilt angle as low as \unit[0.1]{$^{\circ}$} due to low surface mobilities that facilitate arriving molecules to reach surface steps.
Thus, 3C nucleation is assumed as a result of migrating Si and C cointaining molecules interacting with surface disturbances by a yet unknown mechanism, in contrast to a model \cite{ueda90}, in which the competing 6H versus 3C growth depends on the density of surface steps.
-
-MBE ... advantages ... and so on ...
+{\color{red} This can be employed to create 3C layers with reduced density of APB defects.}
+
+Lower growth temperatures, a clean growth ambient, in situ control of the growth process, layer-by-layer deposition and the possibility to achieve dopant profiles within atomic dimensions due to the reduced diffusion at low growth temperatures reveal MBE as a promising technique to produce SiC epitaxial layers.
+gas source ... 3C on 6H
+3C on 3C homoepitaxy by ALE
+6H on 6H ...
+Problem of gas source ... strong adsorption and incorporation of atomic decomposited hydrogen of the gas phase reactants at low temperatures.
+Growth rate lower than desorption rate of hydrogen ...
+Solid source MBE may be the key to avoid such problems ...
+Realized on and off-axis 3C on 4H and ... \cite{fissel95,fissel95_apl} ...
+Nonstoichiometric reconstruction plays a relevenat role ... handled by Si/C flux ratio ... \cite{fissel96,righi03} ...
+change in adlayer thickness and, consequently, in the surface super structure leading to growth of another polytype \cite{fissel95} ...
+Possibility to grow heterostructures (band gap engineering) by careful control of the Si/C ratio and Si excess.
+
+To summarize ... remaining obstacles are ... APB in 3C ... and micropipes in hexagonal SiC?
\section{Ion beam synthesis of cubic silicon carbide}