Impurity-assisted Auger recombination in semiconductors
- 15 January 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 23 (2) , 771-786
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.23.771
Abstract
I have developed a theory of impurity-assisted Auger recombination in semiconductors. It is found that the impurity-assisted process is predominant over the pure collision and the phonon-assisted Auger process in the hole concentration range of , especially when the temperature is below 300 K. The theory is applied to -GaAs and -GaSb as typical cases where the band-gap energy is much larger than the spin-orbit splitting and where these are comparable, respectively. The calculated results are in reasonable agreement with experiments reported on both materials with at 77 K.
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