{"title":"Transmission electron microscopic study on rutile-type GeO2 film on TiO2 (001) substrate","authors":"Hitoshi Takane, Shinya Konishi, Ryo Ota, Yuichiro Hayasaka, Takeru Wakamatsu, Yuki Isobe, Kentaro Kaneko, Katsuhisa Tanaka","doi":"10.1063/5.0236711","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Rutile-type GeO2 (r-GeO2) with an ultrawide bandgap of ∼4.7 eV has emerged as a promising material for next-generation power-electronic and optoelectronic devices. We performed transmission electron microscopy (TEM) observation to analyze the structural properties of r-GeO2 film on r-TiO2 (001) substrate at an atomic level. The r-GeO2 film exhibits a threading dislocation density of 3.6 × 109 cm−2 and there exist edge-, screw-, and mixed-type dislocations in the film as demonstrated by two-beam TEM. The edge-type dislocations have Burgers vectors of [100] and/or [110]. The bandgap of the r-GeO2 film is 4.74 ± 0.01 eV as determined by electron energy loss spectroscopy.","PeriodicalId":8094,"journal":{"name":"Applied Physics Letters","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5000,"publicationDate":"2024-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Applied Physics Letters","FirstCategoryId":"101","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0236711","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"PHYSICS, APPLIED","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Rutile-type GeO2 (r-GeO2) with an ultrawide bandgap of ∼4.7 eV has emerged as a promising material for next-generation power-electronic and optoelectronic devices. We performed transmission electron microscopy (TEM) observation to analyze the structural properties of r-GeO2 film on r-TiO2 (001) substrate at an atomic level. The r-GeO2 film exhibits a threading dislocation density of 3.6 × 109 cm−2 and there exist edge-, screw-, and mixed-type dislocations in the film as demonstrated by two-beam TEM. The edge-type dislocations have Burgers vectors of [100] and/or [110]. The bandgap of the r-GeO2 film is 4.74 ± 0.01 eV as determined by electron energy loss spectroscopy.
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