Photoluminescent determination of Mn concentration and its diffusion in semi-insulating GaAs

Abstract
A method of quantitative analysis of Mn impurity in GaAs by photoluminescence intensity ratio between shallow donor–shallow acceptor and shallow donor–Mn acceptor pair emissions is proposed and experimentally verified by the diffusion of Mn into liquid-encapsulated Czochralski (LEC) and horizontal Bridgman (HB) GaAs. The concentration of Mn piled up near the surface by heat treatment in hydrogen without intentional doping was determined by this method. Very different behaviors of Mn diffusion were observed in one of the HB wafers and suggested that the replacement of Si from Ga to As sites enhances it. It was shown by the simultaneous observation of deep level photoluminescence that VGa and AsGa can also be responsible for the enhanced diffusion of Mn.