ISSN:
1089-7550
Source:
AIP Digital Archive
Topics:
Physics
Notes:
The electrical and optical properties of liquid encapsulated Czochralski grown, Ga-rich (melt composed of 55% Ga and 45% As), p-type GaAs were studied by the Hall effect, capacitance-voltage measurements, magnetic circular dichroism, optically detected electron spin resonance, deep level transient spectroscopy (DLTS), and Raman spectroscopy. Two levels with ionization energies of 78 and 203 meV above the valence band edge were examined and fitted to the singly and doubly charged ground states of a double acceptor which is designated an EK2 center. The Raman scattering cross sections for electronic excitations were determined from the defect concentrations measured by DLTS. The EK2 center is electrically passivated via a remote microwave hydrogen plasma technique. It can be reactivated by heat treatments with an activation energy of Ea=1.4 eV. The concentrations of the two levels were equal to each other in four as-grown samples, in samples following passivation, and at all stages during the subsequent reactivation. The observations are inconsistent with previous suggestions that the levels are due to two separate defects.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.347287
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