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Electron Beam Induced Degradation of 2Deg in AlGaAs/GaAs Heterostructure

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 February 2011

T. Wada ,
T. Kanayama ,
S. Ichimura ,
Y. Sugiyama  and
M. Komuro
T. Wada
Affiliation:
Electrotechnical Laboratory, 1-1-4 Umezono, Tsukuba-shi, lbaraki 305, Japan
T. Kanayama
Affiliation:
National Institute for Advanced Interdisciplinary Research, 1-1-4 Umezono, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki 305, Japan
S. Ichimura
Affiliation:
Electrotechnical Laboratory, 1-1-4 Umezono, Tsukuba-shi, lbaraki 305, Japan
Y. Sugiyama
Affiliation:
Electrotechnical Laboratory, 1-1-4 Umezono, Tsukuba-shi, lbaraki 305, Japan
M. Komuro
Affiliation:
Electrotechnical Laboratory, 1-1-4 Umezono, Tsukuba-shi, lbaraki 305, Japan
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Abstract

The effects of low-energy electron irradiation on the two-dimensional electron gases (2DEG's) in AlGaAs/GaAs heterostructures have been investigated. Not only the electron mobility of the 2DEG's but also the two-dimensional (2D) carriers are found to be reduced by the electron irradiation with the incident energies between 3.5 k and 8 keV and the electron dose of 1×1016 and 1×1017 /cm2. The degraded mobility and the removed carriers by the low-energy electron irradiation are shown to recover by isochronal annealing to some extent, but not completely below 400°C. It is also found that considerable amount of scatterers which are created by an electron irradiation at room temperature are also created by an irradiation at 90 K. Comparing the experimental results with the Monte Carlo simulation, we speculate that the mobility degradation and the 2D carrier compensation are partly caused by the formation of complex defects in the GaAs buffer layer which are due to the excitations of core electrons of As, and that the mobility is further degraded by the formation of short-range scatterers in the heterointerface.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 325: Symposium L – Physics and Applications of Defects in Advanced Semiconductors , 1993 , 67
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1994

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