Separation of bulk and surface electron transport in metamorphic InAs layers using quantitative mobility spectrum analysis
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210 (United States)
Electron transport in low dislocation density, strain-relaxed InAs layers grown on metamorphic InAs{sub y}P{sub 1-y}/InP substrates by molecular beam epitaxy was characterized using quantitative mobility spectrum analysis (QMSA) of Hall effect measurements. QMSA applied to systematically varied metamorphic InAs samples reveals high bulk electron mobilities of {approx}20 000 cm{sup 2}/V s at 300 K at a Si doping concentration of 1x10{sup 17} cm{sup -3}, simultaneously with a separate population of much slower electrons having an average mobility of {approx}2400 cm{sup 2}/V s due to parallel conduction within the InAs surface electron accumulation layer. Measurements made on higher doped samples reveal only a single electron population participating in transport due to lowered surface band bending that reduces surface accumulation of electrons in conjunction with the high conductivity of the high mobility metamorphic InAs bulk that overwhelms any remaining surface conductivity in the Hall effect measurements.
- OSTI ID:
- 21124072
- Journal Information:
- Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 93, Issue 6; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.2970045; (c) 2008 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0003-6951
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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