Determination of the conduction-band discontinuities of GaAs/AlxGa1−xAs interfaces by capacitance-voltage measurements

Abstract
The relation between the conduction‐band discontinuity ΔEc and the Al composition x of refined GaAs/AsxGa1−xAs (xEc=0.67ΔEg, is different from Dingle’s rule. The interface charge density σ of a series of the samples was also investigated in relation to the reliability of the determination of ΔEc. It was found that σ less than 1×1011/cm2 is required to determine ΔEc with the precision of ±10 meV.