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We have tested Bi for the surfactant mediated epitaxy of Ge on Si(111). Islanding of Ge is prevented and a 2D layer growth of smooth and continuous Ge films is observed. The lattice mismatch is accommodated by a periodic array of dislocations confined to the Si/Ge interface. The large covalent radius of Bi reduces the binding energy, allowing Very efficient segregation and low doping levels even at low growth temperatures. Unfortunately, this results also in a high Bi desorption flux limiting the possible growth temperatures below 600 degrees C. Consequently the Ge films show a high defect density in the order of 10(8) cm(-2) for stacking faults and 10(9) cm(-2) for dislocations which limit electron Hall mobility to values below 700 cm(2)/V s at room temperature.
The first fabrication of Ge p-channel MOSFETs (p-MOSFETs) on Si substrates is reported. A CMOS compatible process based on relaxed Ge layers grown on Si(111) substrates by surfactant mediated epitaxy (SME) was used. The non-optimised low temperature process yielded normally-off Ge p-MOSFETs with record channel drift mobilities of 430 cm<sup>2</sup>/Vs