Abstract

A stoichiometric mixture of evaporating materials for single crystal thin films was prepared from horizontal electric furnace. To obtain the single crystal thin films, mixed crystal was deposited on thoroughly etched semi-insulating GaAs(100) substrate by the Hot Wall Epitaxy (HWE) system. The source and substrate temperatures were and , respectively. The crystalline structure of the single crystal thin films was investigated by the photoluminescence and double crystal X-ray diffraction (DCXD). The carrier density and mobility of single crystal thin films measured from Hall effect by van der Pauw method are and at 293 K, respectively. The temperature dependence of the energy band gap of the obtained from the absorption spectra was well described by the Varshni's relation, . The crystal field and the spin-orbit splitting energies for the valence band of the have been estimated to be 182.7 meV and 42.6 meV, respectively, by means of the photocurrent spectra and the Hopfield quasicubic model. These results indicate that the splitting of the definitely exists in the states of the valence band of the epilayer. The three photo current peaks observed at 10 K are ascribed to the , for n = 1 and peaks for n = 27.

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