Selective doping of N-type ZnSe layers with chlorine grown by molecular beam epitaxy

Abstract

N-type ZnSe with electron concentration up to 3 × 1020 cm−3 and low resistivity down to 1 × 10−4 ohm-cm, has been grown using a selective doping technique with chlorine during molecular beam epitaxy. The photoluminescence evaluation shows that the selectively doped ZnSe layers are superior to uniformly doped ones, especially for the case of high-concentration chlorine doping. The in-depth profile of chlorine concentration in a selectively doped sample was measured with secondary-ion mass spectroscopy (SIMS). The SIMS analysis shows only slight diffusion of the incorporated chlorine atoms even in highly doped samples.