Photoluminescence in electrically reversible (semiconducting to semi-insulating) bulk GaAs

Abstract
A photoluminescence study has been made of electrically reversible, bulk, liquid‐encapsulated Czochralski GaAs at temperatures 2–300 K. The reversibility from the semiconducting to the semi‐insulating state is made by slow or fast cooling, respectively, following a 5‐h, 950 °C heat treatment in an evacuated quartz ampoule. A donor level at Ec−0.13 eV and two acceptor levels at Ev+0.069 eV and Ev+0.174 eV are produced after the heat treatment. Only the acceptor levels were detected by photoluminescence. A tentative model assigning the acceptor to the intrinsic defect pair VGa‐GaAs is discussed.