DEEP-SHALLOW TRANSITIONS AND LOSS OF AMPHOTERISM IN TYPE-II SUPERLATTICES

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SHEN, J [1 ]
REN, SY [1 ]
DOW, JD [1 ]
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[1] ARIZONA STATE UNIV,DEPT PHYS & ASTRON,TEMPE,AZ 85287
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.69.1089
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O4 [物理学];
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The traditional rules of effective-mass theory, that a substitutional dopant is a donor (acceptor) if it lies to the right (left) in the periodic table of the atom it replaces, are shown to be broken often in type-II-misaligned superlattices such as InAs/GaSb. Impurities commonly undergo deep-shallow transitions and transitions to "false valence," and group-IV substitutional dopants can lose their amphoterism as remote layer thicknesses are varied.
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