Elastic Modulus of the (GaAs) m (AlAs) n Superlattices

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ELASTIC MODULUS OF T14E (GaA.s)m(AlA.s)n SUPERLATTICES VADIH YU. HIROVITSKII T.nst..itit.e Grosu•]

for Power nng.inee.r.inS,Academy

St..r. 5, K.ish.inev 2770P8,

Moldova,

o:f Sciences

of 1oldova,

(USSR)

ABSTRACT The ul].tratiin

(GaAs) m(AlAs)n superlat.t.ices ( SL ) grown are formally considered as a resuilt. of ordering-type

along [001]

an initial hypothbet.ical mMixed crystal (G A._ A )As w.ith x = m/(m+n).From this point, of vjiew changes of elst.ic modl)us tonsor (EMT) induced by ordering can be calulasted nearly In a spirit, of pbenomenological Landaui thbeory of second-order phase t.rns.lt..ions. Tt. is shown that. a change of E1WT component. . 66is completeoly determined by symmetry properties of t.wo t.ranslat.ional ( Dzyaloshlnsli) invariant.s of m+n power in phase transition from

the expansion of SL thermodynamic potential In a power series In order parameter components. The changes of t.be ot.her P-MT component.s depend on the second power of order paramet.er. . The express~ions are fouind oiut. t.o connect. ( SL -

,MT of a defini t.e ordered

pbase

family wJ.it.h m+n = 3 ) w.it..h that. of the .nitial one.

INTRODUCTION

As well known, t.e

ayers

art..i fIic.ial

of two di fferent.

stru-ctures cons.ist.ing of alteprna-

sem.i conductors possess un.i que

p~hysical properties and more and more. .int.ensively are used in devices. Tn this connection there l.s a. problem to choose ,, p.'•'uj,, th.e only strnucture l.n a. large number of them th.a.t crysta.l.lophysir.l. constants . Tn other word~s i.t its

ha.s req.i.ed. necesnary to

know the dependence of physicatl. properties of layerred. str.uctu7res on its ntrurti.al. p.-arameters such a.s directi.on and. va.l.u.e of sperperi.od. composi.ti.on, etc.Th.e pproa.ch. to solve thits problem (how

to

alcl, ate

ultrathin ST.)

is

e.ffecti ve proposed. in

crystal. lophysi.cra.l

this p.ape•.

constants

of

Tt i.s ba.sed. on the

fa.ct that th.ST. can be con.sid.er•ed. a.. a. si.ngl.e crysta.l. derived, from some ini.ti.a.l crysta...,ine str.x.ct•re by Tm.l.ti.pl.yinng i.t.s pri.mi.tive

cel.We are st~arti~ng -From an idapure A.allW c ompouind. wi~th. the space group Td and w.it.h A atom .in a-position and R at.om In c-pos it.•on. Then. a completely disordered sol.td sol ut.i on Mat. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. Vol. 291. @1993 Materials Research Society

316

( Ax( 1.) A.tx(2))

R

in

the framework- of virt.ui.,l

crysta.l. concept

cbaract.erized by homogeneous probabl I it.y p = xe for any su1biattice point, of t.be puirpe crys.tal to be occupled by atom.

aA(1)

Obvjious.ly, the space. grooup and Wyckoff positions syst.e.m

this fictitious

(virt•ual)

crystal

coincides wit.,h those

i.s

of

of pure

A LAIPV. Suich a "mixed crystal" we shall call. init..ial crystalline structure (.TCS).A complication of ST. primitive cell is cauised by the loss of some TCS space symmetry Piement.s duie to a periodical arrangement. of two kinds of A at.oms over the system of one-fold a-positions translat.ionally equ.ivalent. in IC$..Tn othber words, SL can be