摘要:
The disclosure provides for the use of a group II-VI compound semiconductor as a surface passivator to control recombination of charge carriers at the surface of a group III-V compound semiconductor by a localized heating step. It is theorized for practice of the invention that the control of the recombination of the charge carriers is achieved by chemical reaction of the II-VI compound with excess group V element. In particular the disclosure provides for the use of a capping layer of laser annealed ZnS as a passivating layer on a GaAs device.
摘要:
A light responsive device (10) has a body (12) that includes a matrix comprised of Group III-V material, the matrix having inclusions (14) comprised of a Group V material contained therein. The body is responsive to a presence of a light beam that has a spatially varying intensity for modifying in a corresponding spatially varying manner a distribution of trapped photoexcited charge carriers within the body. The distribution of trapped charge carriers induces a corresponding spatial variation in at least one optical property of the Group III-V material, such as the index of refraction of the Group III-V material and/or an absorption coefficient of the Group III-V material. The Group III-V material is comprised of LTG GaAs:As or LTG AlGaAs:As. In an optical storage medium embodiment of the invention the spatial variation in the intensity of the light beam results from a simultaneous application of a first light beam (LB1) and a second light beam (LB2) to the body, and from interference fringes resulting from an intersection of said first and second light beams.
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The formation of lines of the order of 8 Angstroms wide is achieved using a tunneling current through a gas that changes to provide a residue that is the basis of the line. The tunneling current energy is tuned to the energy required to dissociate the gas.
摘要:
A doped or undoped photoresponsive material having metallic precipitates, and a PiN photodiode utilizing the material for detecting light having a wavelength of 1.3 micrometers. The PiN photodiode includes a substrate having a first compound semiconductor layer disposed thereon. The PiN photodiode further includes an optically responsive compound semiconductor layer disposed above the first compound semiconductor layer. The optically responsive layer includes a plurality of buried Schottky barriers, each of which is associated with an inclusion within a crystal lattice of a Group III-V material. The PiN device also includes a further compound semiconductor layer disposed above the optically responsive layer. For a transversely illuminated embodiment, waveguiding layers may also be disposed above and below the PiN structure. In one example the optically responsive layer is comprised of GaAs:As. The GaAs:As exhibits a very low room temperature dark current, even under forward bias conditions, and a responsivity to 1.3 micrometer radiation modulated at frequencies greater than 1 GHz.
摘要:
Ion implanted impurity activation in a multi-element compound semiconductor crystal such as gallium arsenide, GaAs, over a broad integrated circuit device area, is accomplished using a short time anneal, in the proximity of a uniform concentration of the most volatile element of said crystal, in solid form, over the broad integrated circuit device area surface. A GaAs integrated circuit wafer having ion implanted impurities in the surface for an integrated circuit is annealed in the vicinity of 800.degree.-900.degree. C. for a time of the order of 1-20 seconds in the proximity of a uniform layer of solid arsenic.
摘要:
Enhanced efficiency can be achieved in the construction of semiconductor optical energy conversion devices such as solar cells by providing a translucent frequency shifting supporting member with appropriate doping such as Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 :Cr.sup.+3 (Ruby) that is capable of shifting the wavelength of incident light energy in the direction of greatest efficiency of the semiconductor device. The efficiency can be further enhanced by providing a crystal perfection accommodation region between the active region of the device and the light frequency shifting substrate.
摘要翻译:通过提供具有适当掺杂的半透明变频支撑构件,例如能够移动入射光能量的波长的Al 2 O 3 :Cr + 3(红宝石),可以在诸如太阳能电池的半导体光能转换装置的构造中实现增强的效率 在半导体器件效率最高的方向。 通过在器件的有源区域和光变换衬底之间提供晶体完整的容纳区域可以进一步提高效率。
摘要:
Submicron structure fabrication is accomplished by providing vapor chemical erosion of a compound crystal by suppressing the more volatile elements so that the less volatile element is provided with an anti-agglomeration and erosion rate limiting capability which can be followed by subsequent regrowth in the same environment. The erosion is sensitive to crystallographic orientation.
摘要:
A semiconductor photodetector is formed of interdigitated, metal-semiconductor-metal electrodes disposed on a surface of semi-insulating semiconductor material, gallium arsenide. Radiation such as infra-red or visible light is converted to an electric current flowing between the electrodes upon application of a bias voltage between the electrodes. A Schottky barrier at the junction of each electrode surface and the semiconductor surface limits current flow to that produced by photons. Tunneling of charge carriers of the current under the Schottky barrier, which tunneling results from the entrapment of charge carriers on the semiconductor surface, is inhibited by the production of a heterojunction surface layer upon the foregoing surface between the electrodes to repulse the charge carriers and prevent their entrapment at the surface. The heterojunction layer may be doped to enhance the repulsion of charge carriers. The heterojunction surface layer is of sufficient thickness to prevent tunneling of photogenerated carriers to a noncontacted region of the surface of the heterojunction layer and to also permit efficient repulsion of charge carriers from the surface. Longer wavelength photodetectors may also be formed in this way by providing misfit dislocation regions between the interaction region, which may be GaInAs, and a GaAs substrate, thereby providing a pseudo-morphic interaction region which is graded back to a heterojunction layer at the surface.
摘要:
A layer of an amphoteric dopant on the surface of a group III-V intermetallic semiconductor crystal will diffuse into the crystal surface in a heating cycle forming a stable contact. The contact can be ohmic or rectifying depending on the localized presence of an excess of one crystal ingredient. A layer of Si on GaAs upon heating forms a rectifying contact. When the layer of Si contains As, the contact is ohmic.
摘要:
Crystalline compound semiconductors are passivated with a layer of the most volatile element thereof to prevent the formation of oxides that would interfere with further processing. A GaAs crystal is provided with a surface layer of arsenic. The arsenic layer is formed by exposure to light having a photon energy greater than 1.8 eV, at a power density of 0.01 to 0.5 watts per cm.sup.2 while the GaAs immersed in a 1:1 HCl:H.sub.2 O solution for a period of 10-30 minutes. The intermediate processing passivated GaAs crystal may be stored and handled in air and the As layer is removed by low temperature baking.