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Resonant Raman study of intrinsic defect modes in electron- and neutron-irradiated GaAs

1987; American Physical Society; Volume: 35; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1103/physrevb.35.2205

ISSN

1095-3795

Autores

R. S. Berg, P. Y. Yu,

Tópico(s)

Thin-Film Transistor Technologies

Resumo

We report the results of a resonant Raman study of GaAs samples which contain \ensuremath{\sim}${10}^{17}$--${10}^{18}$ ${\mathrm{cm}}^{\mathrm{\ensuremath{-}}3}$ intrinsic defects that have been introduced by either electron or neutron irradiation. We observe several defect-related modes, two of which we identify as local modes of an intrinsic defect, most likely an As vacancy. In the vicinity of the ${E}_{0}$ transition we observe enhancements of these modes that are more dispersive than the enhancement of the TO-phonon scattering. We explain these observations phenomenologically with a fourth-order perturbation theory involving elastic scattering of either an electron or a hole by a defect. The theory predicts that strongly dispersive enhancement can occur for vibrational modes that involve enhanced motion of atoms in the immediate vicinity of a defect.

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