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DX Center Analysis in Sn DOPED AlGaAs Layer of Double Heterostructures

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2011

M. Kaniewska  and
J. Kaniewski
M. Kaniewska
Affiliation:
Institute of Electron Technology, AI.Lotnikow 32/46, 02-668 Warsaw, Poland
J. Kaniewski
Affiliation:
Institute of Electron Technology, AI.Lotnikow 32/46, 02-668 Warsaw, Poland
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Abstract

Capacitance as well as photovoltage response methods have been used to analyse DX centers in the N–type AlGaAs:Sn layer of double heterostructures. DLTS spectra have revealed two deep traps. The first center (ΔE1 = 0.20eV) has been interpreted as the DX center related to Sn. In this paper, it is suggested that the second trap, with thermal activation energy equal to ΔE2 = 0.33eV, is also a DX center due to Sn, connected with another final state (the L minimum) of thermal processes. C-T characteristics and DLTS spectra have been compared with photovoltage spectra to find a correlation between the trap populations and Al content. The binding energy of the trap 2, as well as the temperature dependence of the electron capture cross-section, have been determined from measurements of the transition region width. Photoionization measurements confirm that there is large lattice relaxation when an electron is captured at the trap.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 104 , 1987 , 579
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1988

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