Heavy and light hole transport in nominally undoped GaSb substrates

H. Kala; Gilberto A. Umana Membreno; Greg Jolley; Nima Dehdashtiakhavan; M.A. Patrashin; K. Akahane; Jarek Antoszewski; Lorenzo Faraone

doi:10.1063/1.4906489

Heavy and light hole transport in nominally undoped GaSb substrates

H. Kala, Gilberto A. Umana Membreno, Greg Jolley, Nima Dehdashtiakhavan, M.A. Patrashin, K. Akahane, Jarek Antoszewski, Lorenzo Faraone

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© 2015 AIP Publishing LLC. In this work, we report results of a study of electronic transport in nominally undoped p-type GaSb wafers typically employed as substrate material for the epitaxial growth of InAs/GaInSb type-II superlattices. Magnetic field dependent Hall-effect measurements and high-resolution mobility spectrum analysis clearly indicate p-type conductivity due to carriers in both the heavy and light hole bands. The extracted hole concentrations indicate a thermal activation energy of 17.8 meV for the dominant native acceptor-like defects. A temperature-independent effective mass ratio of 9.0 ± 0.8 was determined from the ratio of measured heavy and light hole concentrations. Over the 56 K-300 K temperature range, the light hole mobility was found to be 4.7 ± 0.7 times higher than the heavy hole mobility. The measured room temperature mobilities for the light and heavy holes were 2550 cm2/Vs and 520 cm2/Vs, respectively.

Original language	English
Article number	032103
Pages (from-to)	1-5
Number of pages	5
Journal	Applied Physics Letters
Volume	106
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4906489
Publication status	Published - 21 Jan 2015

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Kala, H., Umana Membreno, G. A., Jolley, G., Dehdashtiakhavan, N., Patrashin, M. A., Akahane, K., Antoszewski, J., & Faraone, L. (2015). Heavy and light hole transport in nominally undoped GaSb substrates. Applied Physics Letters, 106, 1-5. [032103]. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4906489

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