Identification of a Br-correlated bandgap state in GaAs by radiotracer spectroscopy

F. Albrecht, G. Pasold, J. Grillenberger, N. Achtziger, W. Witthuhn, M. Risse, R. Vianden, M. Dietrich, and The ISOLDE Collaboration

Applied Physics Letters, Volume 83, Issue 21, pp. 4333-4335 (2003)

DOI Link: 10.1063/1.1629370

Abstract:

A deep energy level of bromine in the bandgap of GaAs was determined by means of Radiotracer deep-level transient spectroscopy (DLTS) measurements. For this purpose, the radioactive isotope 77Br was implanted in p-type as well as in n-type GaAs. In the course of repeated DLTS measurements at n-type GaAs, the spectra are dominated by the occurrence of one bandgap state with the trap parameters Et=EC-0.45(2) eV and σ=2·10-14 cm2. This level vanishes on time scales of the nuclear half-life of the elemental transmutation from 77Br to 77Se (T1/2=57 h). Thereby, a definite correlation can be drawn between the observed bandgap state and a Br-correlated defect.