Tin-vacancy complex in germanium
Markevich, VP, Peaker, AR, Hamilton, B, Litvinov, VV, Pokotilo, YM, Lastovskii, SB, Coutinho, J, Carvalho, A, Rayson, MJ and Briddon, PR (2011) Tin-vacancy complex in germanium Journal of Applied Physics, 109 (8).
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Electrically active defects introduced into Ge crystals co-doped with tin and phosphorus atoms by irradiation with 6 MeV electrons have been studied by means of transient capacitance techniques and ab-initio density functional modeling. It is shown that Sn atoms are effective traps for vacancies (V) in the irradiated Ge:Sn+P crystals. The electronic structure of Sn-V is unraveled on the basis of hybrid states from a Sn atom and a divacancy. Unlike the case for Si, Sn-V in Ge is not a donor. A hole trap with 0.19 eV activation energy for hole emission to the valence band is assigned to an acceptor level of the Sn-V complex. The Sn-V complex anneals out upon heat-treatments in the temperature range 50-100 °C. Its disappearance is accompanied by the formation of phosphorus-vacancy centers. © 2011 American Institute of Physics.
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Divisions : | Surrey research (other units) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date : | 15 April 2011 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
DOI : | 10.1063/1.3574405 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Depositing User : | Symplectic Elements | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date Deposited : | 17 May 2017 13:04 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last Modified : | 24 Jan 2020 23:22 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
URI: | http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/id/eprint/837789 |
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