Av. Govorkov et al., EFFECT OF VARIOUS FACTORS UPON THE STOICHIOMETRY OF GAAS HOMOEPITAXIAL LAYERS GROWN BY LPE, Physica status solidi. a, Applied research, 144(1), 1994, pp. 121-130
The effect of Sn doping and orientation of the substrate surface on va
lue and distribution of lattice period and photoluminescence over and
within homoepitaxial GaAs layers are studied. It is shown that the pre
dominant type of native defects is the As vacancy (V(As)) in the epila
yers grown on (111)A oriented substrate, and a large concentration of
interstitial atoms is present in (111)B epilayers side by side with V(
As). The difference of the native defect state in differently oriented
epilayers is the fundamental cause of the different behaviour of epil
ayers in the process of subsequent annealing in H-2 flow.