-Solid source MBE (SSMBE) may constitute the preffered method to avoid these problems.
-Realized on and off-axis 3C on 4H and ... \cite{fissel95,fissel95_apl} ...
-Nonstoichiometric reconstruction plays a relevenat role ... handled by Si/C flux ratio ... \cite{fissel96,righi03} ...
-change in adlayer thickness and, consequently, in the surface super structure leading to growth of another polytype \cite{fissel95} ...
-Possibility to grow heterostructures (band gap engineering) by careful control of the Si/C ratio and Si excess.
+Solid source MBE (SSMBE), supplying the atomic species to be deposited by evaporation of a solid, presumably constitutes the preffered method in order to avoid the problems mentioned above.
+Although, in the first experiments, temperatures still above \unit[1100]{$^{\circ}$C} were necessary to epitaxially grow 3C-SiC films on 6H-SiC substrates \cite{kaneda87}, subsequent attempts succeeded in growing mixtures of twinned 3C-SiC and 6H-SiC films on off-axis \hkl(0001) 6H-SiC wafers at temperatures between \unit[800]{$^{\circ}$C} and \unit[1000]{$^{\circ}$C} \cite{fissel95,fissel95_apl}.
+In the latter approach, as in GSMBE, excess Si atoms, which are controlled by the Si/C flux ratio, result in the formation of a Si adlayer and the formation of a non-stoichiometric, reconstructed surface superstructure, which influences the mobility of adatoms and, thus, has a decisive influence on the growth mode, polytype and crystallinity \cite{fissel95,fissel96,righi03}.
+Therefore, carefully controlling the Si/C ratio could be exploited to obtain definite heterostructures of different SiC polytypes providing the possibility for band gap engineering in SiC materials.