Growth mechanism and thermoelectric properties of PbTe/SnTe/PbTe heterostructures

被引:23
作者
Rogacheva, EI
Grigorov, SN
Nashchekina, ON
Tavrina, TV
Lyubchenko, SG
Sipatov, AY
Volobuev, V
Fedorov, AG
Dresselhaus, MS
机构
[1] Natl Tech Univ, Kharkov Polytech Inst, UA-61002 Kharkov, Ukraine
[2] Inst Single Crystals, UA-61001 Kharkov, Ukraine
[3] MIT, Dept Elect Engn & Comp Sci, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[4] MIT, Dept Phys, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
关键词
lead telluride; tin telluride; electron microscopy; electrical properties and measurements;
D O I
10.1016/j.tsf.2005.06.039
中图分类号
T [工业技术];
学科分类号
08 ;
摘要
An electron microscopy study of the mechanism of SnTe and PbTe layer growth in PbTe/SnTe/PbTe heterostructures prepared by thermal evaporation in vacuum onto a KCl substrate was performed. It is established that PbTe and SnTe grow on one another in a layer-by-layer fashion with the introduction of misfit dislocations on the interface at a critical thickness d(c) approximate to 2 nm. The experimentally determined dependence of the elastic stress in a growing layer (either PbTe or SnTe) on the layer thickness and the critical thickness are in good agreement with those calculated theoretically. The dependences of the thermoelectric properties of PbTe/SnTe/PbTe heterostructures on the SnTe layer thickness (d(SnTe) = 5 - 100 nm) at fixed thicknesses of the PbTe layers were studied at room temperature. It was found that in the thickness range of d(SnTe) approximate to (10- 15) mn, an inversion of the dominant carrier sign from it to p takes place. The d-dependences of the thermoelectric properties were interpreted within the framework of a three-layer model, creating a PbTe/SnTe/PbTe heterostructure as three conductors connected in a parallel fashion, each characterized by its specific electrophysical parameters. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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