Determination of free-carrier and phonon-assisted absorptions for Si-doped GaSb thin layers

作者:Saadallah Faycel*; Abroug Sameh; Genty Ferederic; Yacoubi Noureddine
来源:Applied Physics A-Materials Science & Processing, 2013, 113(3): 729-733.
DOI:10.1007/s00339-013-7571-0

摘要

Photothermal deflection spectroscopy is used in order to investigate near- and sub-band gap absorption of Si-doped GaSb epilayers deposited by MBE on a semi-insulating GaAs substrate. The optical absorption spectra show an extra absorption on the transparency region below the bandgap due to free-carrier absorption. However, for energies above the gap, we notice a linear behavior of the square root of the absorption coefficient versus the heating beam energy, which is attributed to phonon-assisted absorption. From interpolation of the phonon absorption to low energies we have determined the free-carrier absorption that is found to follow the Drude law.

  • 出版日期2013-11

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