Abstract
Enhanced dry-etch damage in GaAs/GaAlAs and InGaAs/InAlAs quantum well structures due to additional illumination in low-power reactive-ion etching environments has been studied. We observed that damage in shallow quantum wells is increased significantly when above band-gap laser illumination is present during etching, although there is no measurable effect for illumination subsequent to etching. Contributing factors include the influence on ion channeling and also to a form of radiation-enhanced diffusion. The study shows that the effective defect diffusion coefficient is constrained to lie within the range 10−15 to 10−14 cm2/s.
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