NEGATIVELY CHARGED HYDROGEN SPECIES IN 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,PORT ELIZABETH 6000,SOUTH AFRICA
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PHYSICAL REVIEW B | 1991年 / 44卷 / 03期
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10.1103/PhysRevB.44.1375
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T [工业技术];
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08 ;
摘要
Se donors in doped n-type Ga.As are passivated by exposure to a hydrogen plasma. The thermal reactivation of the passivated donors is investigated for the temperature range 154-degrees-C-191-degrees-C. By using the electric field of a reverse-biased Schottky-diode structure, the drift of the thermally dissociated hydrogen as a negatively charged species is demonstrated. The thermal dissociation of the SeH complex obeys first-order kinetics, with a dissociation energy E(SeH) = 1.52 +/- 0.05 eV.
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页码:1375 / 1378
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