Surface Brillouin scattering measurement of the elastic constants of single crystal InAs0.91Sb0.09

• Published in: Journal of physics. Conference series Vol. 278; no. 1; p. 012001
• Main Authors: Kotane, L M, Comins, J D, Every, A G, Botha, J R
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bristol IOP Publishing 01.01.2011
• Subjects: Constants; Crystal structure; Crystallography; Elastic properties; Elastic recovery; Physics; Room temperature; Semiconductor materials; Single crystals; Surface acoustic waves; Ternary alloys
• ISSN: 1742-6596; 1742-6588; 1742-6596
• DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/278/1/012001

Surface Brillouin scattering of light has been used to measure the angular dependence of the Rayleigh surface acoustic wave (SAW), pseudo surface acoustic wave (PSAW) and longitudinal lateral wave (LLW) speeds in a (100)-oriented single crystal of the ternary semiconductor alloy InAs0.91Sb0.09. The wave speed measurements have been used to determine the room temperature values of the elastic constants C11, C12 and C44 of the alloy. A simple and robust fitting procedure has been implemented for recovering the elastic constants, in which the merit function is constructed from explicit secular functions that determine the surface and lateral wave speeds in the [001] and [011] crystallographic directions. In the fitting, relatively larger weighting factors have been assigned to the SAW and PSAW data because of the greater precision with which the surface modes can be measured as compared with the lateral wave.