NONALLOYED OHMIC CONTACTS ON LOW-TEMPERATURE MOLECULAR-BEAM EPITAXIAL GAAS - INFLUENCE OF DEEP DONOR BAND

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YAMAMOTO, H [1 ]
FANG, ZQ [1 ]
LOOK, DC [1 ]
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[1] WRIGHT STATE UNIV,DEPT PHYS,DAYTON,OH 45435
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10.1063/1.103345
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The Ohmic nature of the nonalloyed metal contact on molecular beam epitaxial GaAs grown at 200°C was studied. The specific contact resistances at room temperature and 120 K were 1.5×10-3 and 7.0×10-1 Ω cm2, respectively. These values are anomalously low considering that the conduction-band electron concentration in this material is less than 1011 cm-3 at room temperature. The experimental results indicate that the carrier transport at the metal/semiconductor interface is dominated by a dense (∼3×10 19 cm-3) EL2-like deep donor band, rather than the usual conduction band.
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