Time dependent electrical properties of GaAs doped with radioactive isotopes 67Ga and 71As

G. Rohrlack, K. Freitag, R. Vianden, R. Gwilliam, B. Sealy, J.C. Correia and D. Forkel-Wirth

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Resarch B 106 (1995) p. 267


Abstract:

The results of Hall effect and resitivity measurements on p-GaAs implanted with 67Ga(→ 67Zn) and semiinsulating GaAs implanted with 71As(→ 71Ge → 71Ga) are presented. In either case, time dependent changes of the carrier concentration and resitivity according to the half-life of involved probe atoms could be observed.

In the case of 67Ga, transmutation from the electrically neutral Ga to the single acceptor ZnGa occurs.

For 71As a transformation into the single acceptor GeAs is observed. However, the finally resulting GaAs does not act as a double acceptor, but seems to have a compensating effect.