The low temperature bonding of GaAs/InP wafers is successfully realized by a new surface treatment at 380°. The properties of the bonded structures are studied in terms of the interface shape, electrical and optical characteristic. The low temperature bonding of GaAs/InP wafers is successfully realized by a new surface treatment at 380°. In this method, the surfaces of two wafers are etched by sulfuric solution. Then following a thermal annealing process. The properties of the bonded structures are studied in terms of the interface shape, electrical and optical characteristic through transmission electron microscope (SEM), interface I-V curve, X-ray diffraction (XRD), photoluminescence (PL) spectra, and so on. The optical characteristic of In0.53Ga0.47As/InP multi-quantum wells (MQWs) grown on an InP substrate, which was bonded to GaAs substrate was investigated by measuring photoluminescence (PL) spectra at room temperature. After bonding, neither wavelength shift nor degradation of full-width at half maximum (FWHM) was observed. And the PL intensities of the bonding sample increased about 50%. The bonding strength was found to be sufficiently high and could withstand the subsequent etching and polishing procedures of the bonded wafers. This low temperature wafer bonding method is very attractive to realize optical devices such as lasers, photodetectors and optical waveguides on lattice-mismatched substrates.
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