Stein, B. L. and Yu, E. T. and Croke, E. T. and Hunter, A. T. and Laursen, T. and Mayer, J. W. and Ahn, C. C. (1998) Deep-level transient spectroscopy of Si/Si1–x–yGexCy heterostructures. Applied Physics Letters, 73 (5). pp. 647-649. ISSN 0003-6951. http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:STEapl98
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Deep-level transient spectroscopy was used to measure the activation energies of deep levels in n-type Si/Si1–x–yGexCy heterostructures grown by solid-source molecular-beam epitaxy. Four deep levels have been observed at various activation energies ranging from 231 to 405 meV below the conduction band. The largest deep-level concentration observed was in the deepest level and was found to be approximately 2 × 10^15 cm^–3. Although a large amount of nonsubstitutional C was present in the alloy layers (1–2 at. %), no deep levels were observed at any energy levels that, to the best of our knowledge, have been previously attributed to interstitial C.
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| Additional Information: | ©1998 American Institute of Physics. (Received 16 March 1998; accepted 30 May 1998) The authors would like to acknowledge support from DARPA MDA972-95-3-0047 for work at UCSD, HRL, and ASU and from ONR Grant No. N00014-95-1-0996 for work at UCSD. One of the authors (E.T.Y.) would like to acknowledge receipt of a Sloan Research Fellowship. |
| Subject Keywords: | silicon; Ge-Si alloys; elemental semiconductors; semiconductor materials; semiconductor heterojunctions; deep levels; interface states; deep level transient spectroscopy |
| Record Number: | CaltechAUTHORS:STEapl98 |
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| Alternative URL: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.121935 |
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