Impact of doping and MOCVD conditions on minority carrier lifetime of zinc- and carbon-doped InGaAs and its applications to zinc- and carbon-doped InP/InGaAs heterostructure bipolar transistors Article

Cui, D, Hubbard, SM, Pavlidis, D et al. (2002). Impact of doping and MOCVD conditions on minority carrier lifetime of zinc- and carbon-doped InGaAs and its applications to zinc- and carbon-doped InP/InGaAs heterostructure bipolar transistors . 17(6), 503-509. 10.1088/0268-1242/17/6/301

cited authors

  • Cui, D; Hubbard, SM; Pavlidis, D; Eisenbach, A; Chelli, C

abstract

  • The impact of doping and metalorganic chemical vapour deposition growth conditions on the minority carrier lifetime of zinc- and carbon-doped InGaAs is reported. Room temperature photoluminescence measurements have been employed to obtain direct information on the non-radiative lifetime of the materials. Low growth temperature and low V/III ratio lead to the lower carrier lifetime of the carbon-doped InGaAs samples. InP/InGaAs heterostructure bipolar transistors were grown and fabricated using both zinc- and carbon-doped InGaAs layers as the base regions. The current gain values measured for these devices agree well with the values calculated from the carrier lifetime and mobility/diffusion coefficient measurements.

publication date

  • June 1, 2002

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

start page

  • 503

end page

  • 509

volume

  • 17

issue

  • 6