TY - JOUR
T1 - Spectroscopic ellipsometry as an in-situ monitoring tool for Bi2Se3 films grown by molecular beam epitaxy
AU - Hilse, Maria
AU - Wang, Xiaoyu
AU - Killea, Phoebe
AU - Peiris, Frank
AU - Engel-Herbert, Roman
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2021/7/15
Y1 - 2021/7/15
N2 - In-operando spectroscopic ellipsometry (SE) was used to measure the optical response of Bi2Se3 films grown on sapphire substrates in a molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) reactor during cool-down from a growth temperature of 225 °C. A temperature dependent dielectric model was refined for the topological insulator Bi2Se3 by taking SE spectra at different temperatures and fitting the amplitude ratio and phase difference of orthogonally polarized light using Bi2Se3 films with varying thickness. In-operando SE demonstrated here enabled determining the dielectric function of substrate and growing film unobscured by surface or interface reactions. Its sensitivity to sample temperature and film thickness variations allows determining growth temperature, absolute film thickness, and growth rate in real time, rendering it a reliable and universal approach for a direct comparison of growth conditions between different growth campaigns, thus offering the potential to improve reproducibility of the growth conditions for Bi2Se3 based films and heterostructures.
AB - In-operando spectroscopic ellipsometry (SE) was used to measure the optical response of Bi2Se3 films grown on sapphire substrates in a molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) reactor during cool-down from a growth temperature of 225 °C. A temperature dependent dielectric model was refined for the topological insulator Bi2Se3 by taking SE spectra at different temperatures and fitting the amplitude ratio and phase difference of orthogonally polarized light using Bi2Se3 films with varying thickness. In-operando SE demonstrated here enabled determining the dielectric function of substrate and growing film unobscured by surface or interface reactions. Its sensitivity to sample temperature and film thickness variations allows determining growth temperature, absolute film thickness, and growth rate in real time, rendering it a reliable and universal approach for a direct comparison of growth conditions between different growth campaigns, thus offering the potential to improve reproducibility of the growth conditions for Bi2Se3 based films and heterostructures.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jcrysgro.2021.126177
DO - 10.1016/j.jcrysgro.2021.126177
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85110497581
SN - 0022-0248
VL - 566-567
JO - Journal of Crystal Growth
JF - Journal of Crystal Growth
M1 - 126177
ER -