Electrical and optical properties of Li-doped MBE-grown p-type ZnSe films

Abstract
ZnSe epilayers on GaAs were doped with Li during growth using an alkali metal dispenser in an MBE reactor. The lithium beam intensity was controlled by the dispenser current. Photoluminescence spectra, current-voltage and capacitance-voltage data were measured on these samples. ZnSe:Li layers exhibit a strong acceptor bound exciton emission which decreases with increasing Li beam intensity. The evaluation of the capacitance-voltage measurements gave an Li doping concentration profile. The Li concentration increases with depth by about an order of magnitude within a distance of 0.4 mu m. The authors assume that this Li out-diffusion process is already occurring during growth.

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