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Deep-level controlled lifetime and luminescence efficiency in GaP

Bruce Hamilton, +4 more
- 15 Jun 1975 - 
- Vol. 26, Iss: 12, pp 702-704
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In this paper, the influence of deep levels on the minority-carrier lifetime and relative cathodoluminescent efficiency of undoped GaP has been investigated and evidence that both these parameters are deep-level controlled is presented.
Abstract
The influence of deep levels on the minority‐carrier lifetime and relative cathodoluminescent efficiency of undoped GaP has been investigated. Evidence that both these parameters are deep‐level controlled is presented. The dominant center was detected by thermal capture and emission of minority carriers optically injected into the depletion layer of Schottky barriers. This center was found to have a depth of ET−EV=0.75 eV and a hole capture cross section of approximately 4×10−14 cm2.

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Detection of minority-carrier traps using transient spectroscopy

TL;DR: In this paper, a technique for measuring the properties of deep states which trap minority carriers in the depletion region of a Schottky barrier is described, which enables states to be separated according to their capture cross-sections as well as their emission properties.
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V. A two stage model for deep level capture

TL;DR: In this article, it is argued that capture of a carrier into the ground state of a deep, charged trap will be preceded by capture into a shallow, excited state, and the temperature dependences of capture and re-emission are worked out as consequences of this two step model.
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Deep‐state‐controlled minority‐carrier lifetime in n‐type gallium phosphide

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used capacitance as a measure of the charge state of the deep levels in the depletion region of a Schottky barrier, which is perturbed by the capture and subsequent thermal emission of minority carriers.
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Minority‐carrier lifetime measurements of efficient GaAlAs p‐n heterojunctions

TL;DR: In this article, the lifetime of Ga1−xAlxAs p−n heterojunctions has been investigated using temperature-difference method (ηRT, 1−3% at 6650 A), and the deep levels which govern the efficiency and the lifetime have been studied by I•V, C‐V, photocapacitance, impedance and electroluminescence measurements.
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Green luminescence efficiency in gallium phosphide

D R Wight
- 11 Mar 1977 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the present understanding of the operation of green-emitting GaP LEDs is reviewed, and quantitative analyses of the important mechanisms are described, including surface and interface recombination.
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Determination of Deep Centers in Conducting Gallium Arsenide

TL;DR: In this paper, a technique has been developed for determining the properties of deep centers in conducting, n-type gallium arsenide, where a Schottky barrier is produced at the surface by means of a blocking contact of gold or electrolyte.
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Measurement of the Extrinsic Room‐Temperature Minority Carrier Lifetime in GaP

TL;DR: In this article, the authors measured the minority carrier lifetime of GaP green material at room temperature and showed that the minority lifetime can be determined by unintentionally present recombination centers, which is the primary source of the green emission in non-nitrogen-doped GaP.
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Concentration dependence of the minority carrier diffusion length and lifetime in GaP

M L Young, +1 more
- 01 Sep 1974 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the minority carrier diffusion length and lifetime have been determined in Zn-doped p-type and n-type GaP grown by liquid phase epitaxy, from the spectral response of Schottky diodes, and the decay of cathodoluminescence respectively.
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Kinetics of recombination in nitrogen‐doped GaP

TL;DR: The doping dependence of the bulk efficiency for both n− and p−type GaP:N has been investigated experimentally and theoretically as discussed by the authors, and it is shown that the efficiency should scale linearly with the minority-carrier lifetime, majority−carrier concentration, and the nitrogen concentration in the doping range.
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Minority‐carrier lifetimes and luminescence efficiencies in nitrogen‐doped GaP

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors measured the luminescence efficiency in air at 10 A/cm2 for a diode with a diffusion current density of 10 A cm2 and showed that significantly higher electroluminescent efficiencies approaching 0.3% are available for diodes at the same level of excitation.
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