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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 03, 1981
Filed:
Apr. 21, 1980
Horace C Casey, Jr, Summit, NJ (US);
Alfred Y Cho, Summit, NJ (US);
Philip W Foy, Plainfield, NJ (US);
Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated, Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
Surface recombination current in GaAs devices is reduced by means of a semi-insulating, oxygen, iron or chromium doped monocrystalline layer of AlGaAs grown by MBE. The AlGaAs layer is grown on a GaAs body and is then masked. Diffusion of suitable impurities through a window in the mask converts the exposed portions of the AlGaAs layer to low resistivity and modifies the conductivity of the underlying zone of the GaAs body. The peripheral portions of the AlGaAs layer, however, remain semi-insulating and are effective to reduce the surface recombination velocity - diffusion length product by more than an order of magnitude.