Mechanism for rapid thermal annealing improvements in undoped GaNxAs1−x/GaAs structures grown by molecular beam epitaxy

A systematic investigation of the effect of rapid thermal annealing (RTA) on optical properties of undoped GaNAs/GaAs structures is reported. Two effects are suggested to account for the observed dramatic improvement in the quality of the GaNxAs1−x/GaAs quantum structures after RTA: (i) improved composition uniformity of the GaNxAs1−x alloy, deduced from the photoluminescence (PL), PL excitation and time-resolved measurements; and (ii) significant reduction in the concentration of competing nonradiative defects, revealed by the optically detected magnetic resonance studies.

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