LIGHT-ENHANCED REACTIVATION OF DONORS IN HYDROGENATED N-TYPE GAAS

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作者
LEITCH, AWR [1 ]
PRESCHA, T [1 ]
WEBER, J [1 ]
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[1] UNIV PORT ELIZABETH, DEPT PHYS, POB 1600, PORT ELIZABETH 6000, SOUTH AFRICA
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10.1103/PhysRevB.44.5912
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T [工业技术];
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摘要
The donors in undoped and S-doped GaAs are passivated by exposure to a hydrogen plasma. The influence of laser illumination (1.54 eV) on the reactivation of the passivated donors at 100-degrees-C is investigated. It is found that the dissociation of the donor-hydrogen complex is greatly enhanced under illumination. The reactivation of the passivated donors follows an initially fast process, which for long annealing times reduces to a reactivation process obeying second-order kinetics. The rate-limiting process is explained in terms of the combination of two hydrogen atoms into a molecular species.
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