Examination of properties of epitaxial and bulk gallium antimonide

Using the Hall method, regularities of Te doping of GaSb grown by the Czochralski method and by liquid-phase epitaxy (LPE) are studied. Optimum epitaxial conditions that enable the growth of Te-doped GaSb layers with higher carrier mobilities than the bulk Czochralski-grown GaSb are determined. Possibilities of improvement of output parameters of photoconverters obtained by diffusion of Zn into n-GaSb from the gas phase and by LPE are discussed.

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