Abstract
Photocapacitance transient technique has been applied to Schottky semitransparent barriers as an alternative method, instead of the classical capacitance voltage transient method in p+-n junctions for detecting minority carrier traps. In such a way and, under certain conditions, it is possible to detect and measure both majority and minority traps in Schottky barriers. The method applies well to Schottky barriers in LPE GaAs. A hole trap at 0.57 eV above valence band has been found in reasonable agreement with results in n-p + junctions in which n-layer was grown by LPE