ISSN:
1089-7550
Source:
AIP Digital Archive
Topics:
Physics
Notes:
InxGa1−xAs layers (0≤x≤0.37) doped with carbon (〉1020 cm−3) were grown on semi-insulating GaAs substrates by chemical beam epitaxy using carbon tetrabromide (CBr4) as the dopant source. Hall measurements imply that all of the carbon was present as CAs for values of x up to 0.15. The C acceptors were passivated by exposing samples to a radio frequency hydrogen plasma for periods of up to 6 h. The nearest-neighbor bonding configurations of CAs were investigated by studying the nondegenerate antisymmetric hydrogen stretch mode (A−1 symmetry) and the symmetric XH mode (A+1 symmetry) of the H–CAs pairs using IR absorption and Raman scattering, respectively. Observed modes at 2635 and 450 cm−1 had been assigned to passivated Ga4CAs clusters. New modes at 2550 and 430 cm−1 increased in strength with increasing values of x and are assigned to passivated InGa3CAs clusters. These results were compared with ab initio local density functional theory. Modes due to AlInGaCAs clusters were detected in samples containing grown in Al and In. These results demonstrate that for InGaAs, CBr4 is an efficient C doping source since both In–CAs bonds as well as Ga–CAs bonds are formed, whereas there is no evidence for the formation of In–CAs bonds in samples doped with C derived from trimethylgallium or solid sources. © 1996 American Institute of Physics.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.363803
