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Optical second-harmonic generation efficiency in Si/SixGe1-x superlatt
ices has been compared with the corresponding values for Si(111) and S
i(100). The experimentally observed increase in efficiency for structu
res on Si(111) can be explained by mechanical strains in superlattices
and by the presence of non-centrosymmetric domains.