Energy levels and photo-quenching properties of the arsenic anti-site in GaAs

Abstract
Optically detected ESR and ENDOR experiments in p-type GaAs under photoexcitation show that an arsenic-anti-site-As-interstitial complex has energy levels Ev+0.52 eV (AsGa+2+/-AsI) and Ev+0.74 eV (AsGa0+/-AsI). From the occupied AsGa0+/-AsI level an absorption band starts peaking at 1.2 eV. From the investigation of the photoquenching behaviour and metastability of the AsGa+-AsI pair is concluded that the diamagnetic AsGa-AsI complex can be associated with EL2.