PHOTOEMISSION SPECTROSCOPY OF GAAS-AS PHOTODIODES

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MCINTURFF, DT [1 ]
WOODALL, JM [1 ]
WARREN, AC [1 ]
BRASLAU, N [1 ]
PETTIT, GD [1 ]
KIRCHNER, PD [1 ]
MELLOCH, MR [1 ]
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[1] PURDUE UNIV,SCH ELECT ENGN,W LAFAYETTE,IN 47907
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10.1063/1.106630
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O59 [应用物理学];
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We report on photoemission measurements of molecular-beam-epitaxy-grown GaAs p-i-n structures, in which the optically active insulating GaAs layer contains As precipitates (GaAs:As). GaAs:As is formed by low-temperature growth of GaAs at 225-degrees-C, followed by an anneal at 600-degrees-C. Layers grown in this way have been reported to be sensitive to subband-gap light. The measured barrier height of 0.7 eV, extracted from a well-behaved Fowler plot, indicates that the mechanism for photodetection involves arsenic clusters embedded in GaAs acting as internal Schottky barriers.
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