Temperature dependence of optical properties of GaAs

Pseudodielectric functions 〈e〉=〈e1〉+i〈e2〉 of GaAs were measured by spectroscopic ellipsometry (SE), in the range of 1.6–4.45 eV, at temperatures from room temperature (RT) to ∼610 °C. A very clean, smooth surface was obtained by first growing an epitaxial layer of GaAs on a GaAs substrate and immediately capping it with a protective layer of arsenic. The cap prevented surface oxidation during transport to the measurement chamber, where it was evaporated under ultrahigh vacuum at ∼350 °C. Room‐temperature SE results from this surface are in good agreement with those in the literature obtained by wet‐chemical etching. A quantitative analysis of the 〈e〉 spectrum was made using the harmonic‐oscillator approximation (HOA). It is shown by the HOA that the E1 and E1+Δ1 energy‐band critical points shift downward ∼300 meV as temperature increases from RT to ∼610 °C. An algorithm was developed, using the measured optical constants at a number of fixed temperatures, to compute the dielectric function spectrum at an ...

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