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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 February 2011
The time resolved heat pulse generated by above band gap light is studied at 2 K in undoped, semi—insulating GaAs. The phonon lineshape changes with irradiation by 1.1 micron below gap light. The changes in phonon lineshape are reversed by raising the sanple teaperature to 130 K and recooling to 2M. The results provide strong evidence for the change in acoustic phonon scattering when the defect EL2 is transferred to its metastable state. The phonon scattering anisotropies observed for the [100] and [111] directions is indicative of an anisotropic phonon—defect interaction.