Photocurrent response to picosecond pulses in semiconductors: application to EL2 in gallium arsenide

Michel Pugnet; Jacques H. Collet; Laurent Nardo

doi:10.1117/12.24390

1 March 1991 Photocurrent response to picosecond pulses in semiconductors: application to EL2 in gallium arsenide

Michel Pugnet, Jacques H. Collet, Laurent Nardo

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Proceedings Volume 1361, Physical Concepts of Materials for Novel Optoelectronic Device Applications I: Materials Growth and Characterization; (1991) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.24390
Event: Physical Concepts of Materials for Novel Optoelectronic Device Applications, 1990, Aachen, Germany

Abstract

Infrared photoexcitation of a SI GaAs sample generates photocurrents whose kinetics are interpreted in terms of photogeneration and thermal decay * * of the metastable state EL2 . The thermal deexcitation rate of EL2 is measured in the temperature range (240 K T 360 K). We demonstrate its thermally activated origin and we obtain : r 3. 3 lOt'' exp - O. 30/kT. Picosecond pulse and probe experiments are performed on the same sample. We observe an optical memory effect related to the optical generation of the * metastable state EL2 at room temperature. This effect persists over more than 10 ns.

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Michel Pugnet, Jacques H. Collet, and Laurent Nardo "Photocurrent response to picosecond pulses in semiconductors: application to EL2 in gallium arsenide", Proc. SPIE 1361, Physical Concepts of Materials for Novel Optoelectronic Device Applications I: Materials Growth and Characterization, (1 March 1991); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.24390

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