Local arrangement of amorphous GeSe2 from the viewpoint of crystallization sequence by electron microscopic observations

Local arrangement of amorphous GeSe2 from the viewpoint of crystallization sequence by electron microscopic observations

Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids 117/118 (1990) 215-218 North-Holland 215 LOCAL ARRANGEMENT OF AMORPHOUS GeSe2 FROM THE VIEWPOINT OF CRYSTALLIZATIO...

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Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids 117/118 (1990) 215-218 North-Holland

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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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we suggest the s t r u c t u r e of amorphous

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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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