TITLE

Enhanced recombination tunneling in GaAs pn junctions containing low-temperature-grown-GaAs and ErAs layers

AUTHOR(S)

Pohl, P.; Renner, F.H.; Eckardt, M.; Schwanhäußer, A.; Friedrich, A.; Yüksekdag, Ö.; Malzer, S.; Döhler, G.H.; Kiesel, P.; Driscoll, D.; Hanson, M.; Gossard, A.C.

PUB. DATE

November 2003

SOURCE

Applied Physics Letters;11/10/2003, Vol. 83 Issue 19, p4035

SOURCE TYPE

Academic Journal

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

We report electrical conductivity studies of highly-doped GaAs pn diodes containing a strongly n-doped low-temperature-grown (LT)–GaAs layer and pn junctions containing an approximately one monolayer thick ErAs layer. At room temperature, current densities of 1 kA/cm[sup 2] for the n-LT–GaAs samples and 6 kA/cm[sup 2] for the ErAs samples at 1 V forward bias have been measured. The I–V characteristics under forward bias for the n-LT–GaAs and ErAs samples exhibit significantly different behavior. At low temperatures, the n-LT–GaAs samples reveal a shoulder in the I–V characteristics, which can be explained by a model taking into account tunneling of carriers into LT midgap states. A similar model was able to explain the current transport in the ErAs diodes as tunneling of carriers into metallic regions inside the pn junction. © 2003 American Institute of Physics.

ACCESSION #

11332733

 

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