TRANSIENT AND STEADY DECAY OF PERSISTENT PHOTOCONDUCTIVITY IN SI-DOPED ALXGA1-XAS

被引:8
作者
SAMPAIO, JF
CHAVES, AS
RIBEIRO, GM
GUIMARAES, PSS
DECARVALHO, RP
DEOLIVEIRA, AG
机构
[1] Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, 30161, Minas Gerais
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW B | 1991年 / 44卷 / 19期
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10.1103/PhysRevB.44.10933
中图分类号
T [工业技术];
学科分类号
08 ;
摘要
The decay of persistent photoconductivity (PPC) in bulk Al0.3Ga0.7AS:Si was investigated at 77 K. A transient decay was observed to appear if the light is shut off while the conduction-electron concentration is increasing quickly. The decay of PPC is analyzed based on the negative-U model for the DX center. It is shown that this transient indicates that the decay of the DX center goes via a neutral metastable state DX0 of silicon.
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页码:10933 / 10936
页数:4
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