Dopant diffusion and current-voltage studies on epitaxial InP codoped with Ru and Fe

• Semi-insulating Fe and Ru codoped InP epitaxial layers grown by low-pressure hydride vapor phase epitaxy have been investigated. InP:Ru and InP:Fe,Ru layers were grown on p-InP:Zn and n-InP:S substrates, in order to study dopant diffusion and electrical characteristics. Dopant diffusion profiles of Ru, Fe and Zn were measured by secondary ion mass spectroscopy. A small but noteworthy diffusion front is observed when InP:Ru is adjacent to InP:Zn, but not when adjacent to n-InP. For InP:Fe codoped with Ru a pronounced interdiffusion of Fe and Zn is observed for Ru concentrations less than 2 X 10(17) cm(-3), but, for a higher Ru concentration the interdiffusion is clearly suppressed. Moreover, when InP is codoped with Fe and Ru, the small diffusion tail of Ru in InP:Zn vanishes. Unlike InP:Fe, resistivities above 1 X 10(8) Ohm cm are measured for both electron and hole-current injection in InP:Fe,Ru.

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InP : Fe

Ru

dopant diffusion

low-pressure hydride VPE

chemical-vapor-deposition

phase epitaxy

iron

layers

zn

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