Structural and optical characterization of the high quality Be-doped InAs epitaxial layer grown on GaAs substrate

The highly Be-doped InAs layer has been grown on semi-insulating GaAs (100) substrate by Molecular Beam Epitaxy. Very good quality of the layer has been attested by high resolution scanning electron microscope (HR-SEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD) and the Raman spectra. The parallel and perpendicular residual strain are determined to be – 1.17 × 10-3 , and 1.12 × 10-3 , respectively. Moreover, the absorbance (ABS) and photoluminescence (PL) spectra were collected in order to estimate the bandgap narrowing. The 10 meV bandgap shrinking for 1.7×1018 cm-3 acceptor concentration suggests necessity of reexamining the Jain et al model [Jain, S. C., et al. - JAP 68(7): 3747-3749] in the context of actual values of InAs valence-bands effective-masses.

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