DOPANT AND CARRIER PROFILING IN MODULATION-DOPED GAAS MULTILAYERS WITH CROSS-SECTIONAL SCANNING-TUNNELING-MICROSCOPY

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JOHNSON, MB
MEIER, HP
SALEMINK, HWM
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[1] IBM Research Division, Zurich Research Laboratory
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10.1063/1.110073
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O59 [应用物理学];
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We report the direct measurement of dopant and carrier density profiles in GaAs (001) modulation-doped structures using cross-sectional scanning tunneling microscopy, On ultrahigh-vacuum-cleaved cross-sectional (110) GaAs surfaces, individual electrically active dopants are observed as hillocks in the top several surface layers, and the tip-sample separation is found to be sensitive to the carrier concentration. In structures where the conventionally measured p-type dopant concentration varied from 1 x 10(18) to 1 x 10(19) cm-3 the density of such dopant hillocks varies accordingly and the tip-sample separation changes by 0.1 nm.
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