AL-GA INTERDIFFUSION IN HEAVILY CARBON-DOPED ALXGA1-XAS-GAAS QUANTUM-WELL HETEROSTRUCTURES

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GUIDO, LJ [1 ]
CUNNINGHAM, BT [1 ]
NAM, DW [1 ]
HSIEH, KC [1 ]
PLANO, WE [1 ]
MAJOR, JS [1 ]
VESELY, EJ [1 ]
SUGG, AR [1 ]
HOLONYAK, N [1 ]
STILLMAN, GE [1 ]
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[1] UNIV ILLINOIS,MAT RES LAB,URBANA,IL 61801
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10.1063/1.345560
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Impurity-induced layer disordering experiments on AlxGa 1-xAs-GaAs quantum well heterostructures (QWHs) that are doped heavily with carbon are described. The data show that carbon doping retards Al-Ga interdiffusion relative to an undoped crystal, and that interdiffusion in C-doped QWHs is not enhanced by a Ga-rich (versus As-rich) annealing ambient. The data are inconsistent with most Fermi-level-effect models for layer disordering that do not include chemical impurity dependence or sublattice dependence, and that do not consider the possibility of inhibited Al-Ga interdiffusion in extrinsic crystals.
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