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Absolute Pressure Dependence of the Second Ionization Level of EL2 in GaAs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2011

D.E. Bliss ,
W. Walukiewicz ,
D.D. Nolte  and
E.E. Haller
D.E. Bliss
Affiliation:
Dept. of Materials Science and Mineral Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, and the Center for Advanced Materials, Materials and Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720
W. Walukiewicz
Affiliation:
Dept. of Materials Science and Mineral Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, and the Center for Advanced Materials, Materials and Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720
D.D. Nolte
Affiliation:
Dept. of Materials Science and Mineral Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, and the Center for Advanced Materials, Materials and Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720
E.E. Haller
Affiliation:
Dept. of Materials Science and Mineral Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, and the Center for Advanced Materials, Materials and Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720
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Abstract

We report the results of DLTS experiments under uniaxial stress on the second ionization level of EL2(++/+) in p-type GaAs. We measured the shift in the hole emission rate as a function of stress applied in the [100] and [110] directions. By modeling the valence band with two independently displacing bands and appropriately derived effective masses, we obtain a small absolute hydrostatic pressure derivative for the defect, 39 ±15 meV GPa-1. The shear contribution is negligible. This result is very different than for the first ionization level, EL2(+/o) with a emission energy pressure derivative of 90 ±15 meV GPa-1. The difference can be accounted for by the pressure dependence of the electron capture barrier of EL2(+/o), 49 ±15meV GPa-1. The absolute pressure derivatives of the two levels are then comparable and in good agreement with simple theory for Ga site point defects.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 163: Symposium G – Impurities, Defects and Diffusion in Semiconductors: Bulk and Layered Structures , 1989 , 815
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1990

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