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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 23, 2015
Filed:
May. 15, 2013
Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, Madison, WI (US);
Thomas F. Kuech, Madison, WI (US);
Kevin L. Schulte, Madison, WI (US);
Luke J. Mawst, Sun Prairie, WI (US);
Tae Wan Kim, Madison, WI (US);
Brian T. Zutter, Madison, WI (US);
Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, Madison, WI (US);
Abstract
Virtual substrates made by hydride vapor phase epitaxy are provided comprising a semiconductor growth substrate and a substantially strain-relaxed metamorphic buffer layer (MBL) structure comprising one or more layers of a semiconductor alloy on the growth substrate. The MBL structure is compositionally graded such that its lattice constant transitions from a lattice constant at the interface with the growth substrate that is substantially the same as the lattice constant of the growth substrate to a lattice constant at a surface opposite the interface that is different from the lattice constant of the growth substrate. The virtual substrates comprise relatively thick MBL structures (e.g., >20 μm) and relatively thick growth substrates (e.g., >0.5 mm).