Nature of the acceptor responsible for p-type conduction in liquid encapsulated Czochralski-grown undoped gallium antimonide

C. C. Ling, M. K. Lui, S. K. Ma, X. D. Chen, S. Fung, C. D. Beling
2004 Applied Physics Letters  
Acceptors in liquid encapsulated Czochralski-grown undoped gallium antimonide (GaSb) were studied by temperature dependent Hall measurement and positron lifetime spectroscopy (PLS). Because of its high concentration and low ionization energy, a level at E V + 34 meV is found to be the important acceptor responsible for the p-type conduction of the samples. Two different kinds of V Ga -related defects (lifetimes of 280 ps and 315 ps, respectively) having different microstructures were
more » ... ed by PLS. By comparing their annealing behaviors and charge state occupancies, the E V + 34 meV level could not be related to the two V Ga -related defects.
doi:10.1063/1.1773934 fatcat:3pyrkba65rahxcjhhnmdcrs67u