OBSERVATION OF STRONG CONTRAST FROM DOPING VARIATIONS IN TRANSMISSION ELECTRON-MICROSCOPY OF INP-BASED SEMICONDUCTOR-LASER DIODES

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HULL, R [1 ]
STEVIE, FA [1 ]
BAHNCK, D [1 ]
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[1] AT&T BELL LABS,MURRAY HILL,NJ 07974
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10.1063/1.114206
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We report strong transmission electron microscope (TEM) contrast between p-, i-, and n-doped InP layers in semiconductor laser diodes. For doping concentrations ∼1018 cm-3, contrast levels on the order 30% are observed between p- and n-type layers. A critical feature of these experiments is that the samples imaged in the TEM are relatively perfect, plane-parallel sided membranes fabricated with a focused ion beam. This technique offers the ability to detect and map doping variations with nm-scale resolution, simultaneously with the other compositional and defect information inherent to TEM. © 1995 American Institute of Physics.
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