Experimental Evidence for the Spatial Correlation of Charged EL2(+) Defects and Acceptors in Semi-insulating GaAs
M.L. Sadowski and M. Grynberg
Institute of Experimental Physics, Warsaw University, Hoża 69, 00-681 Warszawa, Poland
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The far-infrared photoconductivity due to shallow donors was measured in semi-insulating GaAs for different states of the EL2 defect - normal, metastable, and during the transition - with and without hydrostatic pres­sure. The results show that the intra-donor transition line broadening ob­served previously after transferring the EL2 to the metastable configuration cannot be due to lattice distortion effects, and can only be explained in terms of a spatial correlation of charged EL2(+) and acceptor A(-) states, which form electric dipoles.
DOI: 10.12693/APhysPolA.87.133
PACS numbers: 62.50.+p, 71.55.Eq, 78.50.Ge