Abstract
Publisher Summary The effects of energetic neutrons and various charged particles on the physical properties of solids are the object of numerous investigations for nearly two decades. Effects on the electrical properties of semiconductors are of particular interest recently because of (1) the relatively large changes induced by small amounts of irradiation and (2) the technological importance of this class of materials. Of the available semiconducting materials, germanium and silicon have received the greatest attention; other semiconductors are studied on a more modest scale, if at all. A study of radiation effects on compound semiconductors is useful from both fundamental and applied points of view. First of all, a greater variety of intrinsic defects is possible in a compound than in an element. The role of the bombarding particles is simply that of transferring enough energy to individual atoms to knock them from normal lattice positions into interstitial positions.
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