Abstract

Optoelectronic modulation spectroscopy (OEMS) has been used to examine defect-related states in GaAs metal-semiconductor, field-effect transistor (MESFET) structures prepared by molecular-beam epitaxy (MBE) on buffer layers formed at normal and low temperatures. The technique was used to simultaneously observe the spectra of defect states near to the interface with the buffer layer and in the active layer. There were few responses that were common to the structures. The most prominent was an electron trap with a depth of 0.92 eV. This was present throughout both structures and may be from a native defect in GaAs. With few exceptions the states seen in a particular structure were present in the active layer as well as near to the interface with the buffer layer suggesting that, in each case, the defects originated from the active/buffer layer interface or from the buffer layer. The most significant difference was that states in the low-temperature (LT)-based structure generally exhibited replicating responses with specific energy periodicities. A model describes this in terms of optical-absorption transitions to the local vibrational states of defects. Five different replica series were observed. The vibrational characteristics of the defects found in the LT material suggest that they are different in character and extent to those defects found in material formed on a normally prepared buffer layer. Their Frank-Condon energies ranged from 9–332 meV.

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