ISSN:
1077-3118
Source:
AIP Digital Archive
Topics:
Physics
Notes:
It is shown for the first time that carbon behaves predominantly as an acceptor in InGaAs and AlInAs under co-implantation conditions. The co-implanted ion, regardless of species, acts to create vacant lattice sites for occupation by the carbon. Implantation of 40 keV carbon ions alone at doses between 5×1012 and 5×1014 cm−2 followed by annealing in the range 600–950 °C for 10 s does not produce any measurable electrical activity in either material. In InGaAs, carbon implantation at 5×1014 cm−2 produced net acceptor activations of 20, 11, or 6% for Ga, Ar, or As co-implantation, respectively, at the same doses after 700 °C, 10 s anneals. Similar results were obtained for AlInAs after annealing at 900 °C. The diffusion coefficient for carbon is estimated from secondary-ion mass spectrometry measurements to be less than 3.3×10−14 cm2 s−1 at 800 °C in both materials.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.102531
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