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LOCAL ARRANGEMENT OF AMORPHOUS GeSe2 FROM THE VIEWPOINT OF CRYSTALLIZATION SEQUENCE BY ELECTRON MICROSCOPIC OBSERVATIONS Toshio OKABE, K i m i h i r o NAKAMURA and Masayuki NAKAGAWA Department o f Physics, Toyama U n i v e r s i t y ,
Toyama 930, Japan
The c r y s t a l l i z a t i o n sequence o f amorphous GexSel-x (O.l
I.
INTRODUCTION
v i t r e o u s GeSe2 seems t o possess a s i m i l a r s t r u c -
A g r e a t deal of e x p e r i m e n t a l e f f o r t
has been
expended to determine the s t r u c t u r e o f amorphous
t u r e as glassy GeS2, There are two c r y s t a l s t r u c t u r e s in GeS2 and
chalcogenides by d i f f r a c t i o n
methods I and by i n 2 f r a r e d and Raman spectroscopy, From the i r and
GeSe2: a l o w - t e m p e r a t u r e (LT-) form 8 ' 9 and a
Raman spectroscopy on GexSel_ x glasses, Tronc 3 et al. have confirmed the s t r u c t u r a l model of
dimen-sional w i t h 24 formula u n i t s per u n i t c e l l ,
a c h e m i c a l l y ordered continuous network in which
per l a y e r - u n i t
8-N valence c o - o r d i n a t i o n r u l e i s s a t i s f i e d
for
h i g h - t e m p e r a t u r e (HT-) one, lO~12the former t h r e e the l a t t e r
a l a y e r s t r u c t u r e w i t h 8 formula u n i t s cell.
In the former the t e t r a -
hedra share corners, w h i l e in the l a t t e r
half
both components and t h e r e is chemical preference
the t e t r a h e d r a share only corners w h i l e h a l f
f o r the bonds between u n l i k e atoms,
share one edge,
Raman
In both s t r u c t u r e s the c o - o r d i -
s t u d i e s 4 on bulk GexSl_ x have i n d i c a t e d the
n a t i o n of Ge is 4 and t h a t o f S and Se is 2.
presence of a l a r g e r molecules, namely S3Ge-GeS3,
However, only the HT-phase o f GeSe2 has been
as w e l l as the e x i s t e n c e of GeS4 t e t r a h e d r a ,
observed on the s t u d i e s 13'14 of the c r y s t a l l z -
The o b s e r v a t i o n o f the s p l i t t i n g
a t i o n process of amorphous GexSel_ x f o r x < 0,3.
o f Raman l i n e
has been i n t e r p r e t e d as an i n d i c a t i o n o f u n i t s
In t h i s paper we r e p o r t the c r y s t a l l i z a t i o n
w i t h layered s t r u c t u r e , 5
quence o f the amorphous f i l m s ,
By both Raman and
EXAFS measurements, however, Nemanich e t a l , 6
O.l
se-
investigated for
by t r a n s m i s s i o n e l e c t r o n microscopy,
have suggested no evidence f o r m o l e c u l a r s t r u c -
f i n d i n g the f o r m a t i o n o f the LT-phase as well
t u r e s in GeSe2 but r a t h e r i t is more random, 7 Recently, F e l t z e t a l , have r e p o r t e d the p r e s -
as the HT-one w i t h s p e c i f i c c o n d i t i o n s ,
ence o f a remarkable number o f edge-shared GeS4/2
GexSel_ x c o n s i s t s o f the edge-shared GeSe4/2
u n i t s in the t h r e e d i m e n s i o n a l l y connected n e t -
t e t r a h e d r a l u n i t in the whole range of composi-
work by m o d e l l i n g the glass s t r u c t u r e of GeS2
t i o n s w i t h 0. I < x < 0.4.
in o r d e r t o i n t e r p r e t
the e x p e r i m e n t a l RDF, They
also suggest from the comparison o f the RDFs t h a t
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2. EXPERIMENTAL PROCEDURES Samples o f amorphous GexSel_ x were prepared in t h i n - f i l m
form, p a r t l y by thermal f l a s h evapo-
r a t i o n and p a r t l y by c o - e v a p o r a t i o n o f the c o n s t i t u e n t s from two sources in a vacuum system evacuated to < 1 x 10- 4 and maintained at < 7 x 10-4 Pa throughout the e v a p o r a t i o n .
The f i l m s were
grown on mica s u b s t r a t e s a t room temperature on monitoring their oscillating
thickness by q u a r t z c r y s t a l
microbalances; l i k e w i s e carbon f i l m s .
amorphous Ge-Se a l l o y s and again carbon f i l m s , resp. ~ 7, ~ 30 and ~ 7 nm t h i c k s u c c e s s i v e l y . The f i l m was w e t - s t r i p p e d from the s u b s t r a t e and mounted on a molybdenum e l e c t r o n microscope g r i d s . Carbon f i l m s were used to p r o t e c t the amorphous a l l o y s from the i m p u r i t y c o n t a m i n a t i o n or the selenium s u b l i m a t i o n during the o b s e r v a t i o n made in the hot stage o f an e l e c t r o n microscope.
The
composition o f the f i l m s was determined by energy
FIGURE 1 Transmission e l e c t r o n micrograph of annealed GeO.3SeO.7 f i l m : amorphous phase ( a ) , high-tempe r a t u r e GeSe2 phases ( b , c ) and l o w - t e m p e r a t u r e GeSe2 phase ( d ) .
d i s p e r s i v e x - r a y a n a l y s i s w i t h an ORTEC EEDS-II system attached to the e l e c t r o n microscope.
High
r e s o l u t i o n e l e c t r o n micrographs were taken using a I0 nm- I
r a d i u s o b j e c t i v e a p e r t u r e under a x i a l
illumination
w i t h a JEM-2OOCX e l e c t r o n microscope
by d i f f r a c t i o n analysis.
The c r y s t a l l i z a t i o n
temperature varies depending on the f i l m s , presumably on the rate of heating.
In the narrow
range of compositions with 0.3 < x < 0.4, some
equipped w i t h a high r e s o l u t i o n side e n t r y g o n i o -
HT-GeSe2 c r y s t a l l i t e s grow r a d i a l l y from a point
meter stage and an o b j e c t i v e lens w i t h Cs = 1.9
in the amorphous matrix, followed by the formation of a LT-GeSe2 crystal adjacent to the HT-
mm, operated a t 200 kV.
one, as shown in figure I. 3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 3.1. C r y s t a l l i z a t i o n
No independent forma-
tion of the LT-phase is v i s i b l e in the amorphous matrix.
behavior
Transmission e l e c t r o n micrographs f o r the asdeposited GexSel_ x (O.l
3.2. Orientation relationships The observed topotaxial relations between the
homogeneous and f e a t u r e l e s s s t r u c t u r e on a m i c r o -
HT- and the LT-GeSe2 crystals are analyzed from
scopic scale and the corresponding d i f f r a c t i o n
the electron d i f f r a c t i o n patterns of the i n t e r -
p a t t e r n s are broad, h a l o - t y p e , t y p i c a l
face of two phases as,
phous s t r u c t u r e .
of amor-
In s i t u o b s e r v a t i o n o f the
amorphous f i l m s w i t h x < 0.3 in the heating stage
(O01)LT / / (O01)HT and [ I I O ] L T / / [020]HT where the l a t t i c e parameters are chosen a f t e r
of e l e c t r o n microscope show t h a t a s e p a r a t i o n
r e f . 8 f o r the LT-GeSe 2 and r e f .
of the o r i g i n a l
GeSe2.
amorphous phase i n t o two v i t r e o u s
phases is appearing so as to form condensed
I0 f o r the HT-
The former is orthorhombic w i t h a =
0.694. b = 1.220 and c = 2.299 nm and the l a t t e r
regions r i c h in Ge and t h i n regions r i c h in Se.
also orthorhombic w i t h a = 0.704, b = 1.183 and
The condensed r e g i o n s , then. t u r n to c r y s t a l l i z e
c = 1.682 nm.
above 350 °C t o the HT-GeSe2 phase, i d e n t i f i e d
determined to m o n o c l i n i c 9 or pseudo-orthorhom-
These s t r u c t u r e s has been r e -
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FIGURE 2 High-resolution electron microscopic images of the interface between HT-GeSe2 and LT-GeSe2, viewed along the [001] common axis (a) and along the o f f - a x i s (b). The positions of the interphase boundary are arrowed. bic 12 with the space groups.
which may be s t i l l
3,3. High-resolution electron microscopy Figure 2a shows an example of the high-resolut i o n electron microscopic images of the i n t e r fa c e viewed along the common [001] axis.
In the
amorphous because the compo-
s i t i o n s d i f f e r from the stoichiometry. 3.4. Local arrangement of amorphous GeSe2 The present observations of successive format i o n of a LT-phase c r y s t a l , adjacent to a grown
figure, the 0.59 nm {020} planes of the HT-GeSe2
HT-phase crystal in the amorphous matrix with
are p a r a l l e l to the 0.60 nm { I I 0 }
planes of the
a s p e c i f i c o r i e n t a t i o n r e l a t i o n s h i p , provide en-
LT-GeSe2 and the interface is seen to be nearly
hanced insight into the local arrangement of the
f l a t on the atomic scale.
amorphous structure, because c r y s t a l l i z a t i o n
The l a t t i c e match
is c l e a r l y i l l u s t r a t e d by figure 2b, which is
processes are i n t i m a t e l y related with the short
taken by t i l t
range order present in the glassy state.
o r i e n t a t i o n of the [001] axis to
the electron beam.
The 0.59 nm {021} planes
The
HT-phase contains h a l f the edge-shared and h a l f
of the LT-phase are well f i t t e d to the 0.65 nm
the corner-shared tetraheda while the LT-phase
{I01} planes of the HT-one at the boundary with
only the edge-shared tetrahedra.
making angles of 20 degree, including a few d i s -
of these results in comparison with the atomic
locations to accomodate the m i s f i t of t h e i r
arrangement in the LT- and the HT-phases, we
spacings.
coclude the existence of the structural u n i t of
On the {020} planes of the HT-phase,
On the basis
t h e i r exists the layer structure consists of the
edge-shared tetrahedron GeSe4/2 in the amorphous
edge-shared tetrahedron as well as the corner-
structure with near the stoichiometric composi-
shared one.
Moreover, on the f i g u r e 2b, the HT-
crystals contain considerable defect regions,
t i o n GeSe2., which is in agreement with results of infrared and Raman measurements15 and also
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