Effects of implantant depth distribution on photoluminescence spectra in Be-implanted GaAs

Abstract
Photoluminescence spectra from ion‐implanted Be acceptors in GaAs have been studied as a function of wavelength and intensity of excitation light over the implant‐fluence range 3×1012 to 1×1015 cm−2. It is demonstrated that the nonuniform distributions of implantant concentration as a function of depth in the implanted layer produce a profiling effect which causes anomalous changes in photoluminescence line shapes and energy positions as a function of excitation intensity. These results imply photoexcited carrier diffusion lengths of much less than 1 μm in implanted and annealed layers in bulk GaAs.

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