Optical and Electrical Characterization of Melt-Grown Bulk Indium Gallium Arsenide and Indium Arsenic Phosphide Alloys

Abstract

A new method to determine semiconductor bandgap energy directly from the easily measured transmission spectra was developed. The method was verified using many binary semiconductors with known properties and utilized to determine the unknown ternary semiconductors were determined at various wavelengths and temperatures. Photoluminescence and Hall-effect measurement were performed to identify various electronic transitions, as well as sample quality. The determination of electrical and optical properties of the material will provide important addition to the database of material properties for future optoelectronic device applications. In the near future, newer materials and their applications need to be developed, and often binary and ternary III-V compounds (GaSb, GaP, GaSbP etc.) can be studied using the method developed in this work.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2011
Accession Number
ADA538250

Entities

People

  • Jean Wei

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Band Structures
  • Band Theory Of Solids
  • Charge Carriers
  • Compound Semiconductors
  • Crystal Lattices
  • Energy Bands
  • Measurement
  • Optical Properties
  • Optics
  • Optoelectronic Devices
  • Phase Diagrams
  • Refractive Index
  • Semiconductor Devices
  • Semiconductors
  • Silicon Carbide
  • Solid State Physics

Fields of Study

  • Materials science

Readers

  • Semiconductor Device Technology

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics