Epitaxial growth of Matched Metallic ErP0.6 As0.4 layers on GaAs
- 1 January 1989
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in MRS Proceedings
Abstract
Successful growth of (001 )ErP0.6As0.4 single crystal film on (001) GaAs has been demonstrated. The epitaxial metallic layers reproducibly showed lattice mismatch below 5 10-4. This is, to our knowledge, the first report of a stable, epitaxial and lattice-matched metal/compound semiconductor heterostructure. The ErP0.6As0.4/n-GaAs diodes yielded excellent I-V characteristics with an ideality factor of 1.1 and barrier height of 0.88 eV. For a 240 A-thick film, metallic behavior was observed with resistivities of 25 and 86 µΩcm at 1.5 K and room temperature, respectively. As the other Er compounds ErP, ErAs, ErSb and ErSi2, ErP0.6As0.4 presents an abrupt drop in resistivity in the vicinity of the liquid helium temperature, due to a paramagnetic to antiferromagnetic phase transition.Keywords
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