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Journal of Crystal Growth, Vol.351, No.1, 37-40, 2012
Quaternary bismide alloy ByGa1-yAs1-xBix lattice matched to GaAs
We report on the lattice matched quaternary alloy, ByGa1-yAs1-xBix grown by molecular beam epitaxy at conditions conducive to bismuth incorporation. Incorporating a smaller atom (boron) along with the larger atom (bismuth) allows for a reduction of the epi-layer strain and lattice matching to GaAs for compositions of Bi : B similar or equal to 1.3 : 1. The addition of boron flux does not significantly affect the bismuth incorporation and no change in the band gap energy is observed with increasing boron content. However, excess, non-substitutional boron is incorporated which leads to an increase in hole density, as well as an increase in the density of shallow in-gap states as observed by the loss of localization of photo-excited excitons. Published by Elsevier B.V.