Surface gallium arsenide

Atomic absorption spectroscopy of VPD solutions (VPD-AAS) and instrumental neutron activation analysis (INAA) offer similar detection limits for metallic impurities with silicon substrates. The main advantage of TXRF, compared to VPD-AAS, is its multielement capability AAS is a sequential technique that requires a specific lamp to detect each element. Furthermore, the problem of blank values is of little importance with TXRF because no handling of the analytical solution is involved. On the other hand, adequately sensitive detection of sodium is possible only by using VPD-AAS. INAA is basically a bulk analysis technique, while TXRF is sensitive only to the surface. In addition, TXRF is fast, with an typical analysis time of 1000 s turn-around times for INAA are on the order of weeks. Gallium arsenide surfaces can be analyzed neither by AAS nor by INAA. 

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S. Hildebrandt et al.. Optical Study of Band-Bending and Interface Recombination at Sb, S, and Se Covered Gallium Arsenide Surfaces, Appl. Surf. Sci. 1993, 63, 153-157. 

M. Tabib-Azar, A. S. Dewa, W. H. Ko, Langmuir-Blodgett Film Passivation of Unpinned -Type Gallium Arsenide Surfaces, Appl. Phys. Lett. 1988, 52, 206-208. 

Buijs, J., Speidel, M., Oscarsson, S. (2000) The stability of lysozyme adsorbed on silica and gallium arsenide surfaces Preferential destabilization of part of the lysozyme structure by gallium arsenide. J Colloid Interface Sci, 226 (2), 237-245. 

Fig. 9.24 An STM image of cesium atoms on a gallium arsenide surface.

B. A. Par nson, A. Heller, and B. Miller, Enhanced photoeletrochemical solar-energy conversion by gallium-arsenide surface modification, Appl Phys. Lett 33 (1978) 521-523. 

D.M. Zehner, Surface Studies of Pulsed Laser Irradiated Semiconductors D.H. Lowndes, Pulsed Beam Processing of Gallium Arsenide R.B. James, Pulsed C02 Laser Annealing of Semiconductors R. T. Young and R.F. Wood, Applications of Pulsed Laser Processing... 

Villegas, I. Stickney, J. L. 1992. Preliminary studies of gallium arsenide deposition on gold (100), (110), and (111) surfaces by electrochemical atomic layer epitaxy. J. Electrochem. Soc. 139 686-94. 

The same disciission may apply to the anodic dissolution of semiconductor electrodes of covalently bonded compounds such as gallium arsenide. In general, covalent compoimd semiconductors contain varying ionic polarity, in which the component atoms of positive polarity re likely to become surface cations and the component atoms of negative polarity are likely to become surface radicals. For such compound semiconductors in anodic dissolution, the valence band mechanism predominates over the conduction band mechanism with increasing band gap and increasing polarity of the compounds. 

Fig. 11.4. Velocities of bulk and surface waves in an (001) plane the angle of propagation in the plane is relative to a [100] direction, (a) Zirconia, anisotropy factor Aan = 0.36 (b) gallium arsenide, anisotropy factor Aan = 1.83 material constants taken from Table 11.3. Bulk polarizations L, longitudinal SV, shear vertical, polarized normal to the (001) plane SH, shear horizontal, polarized in the (001) plane. Surface modes R, Rayleigh, slower than any bulk wave in that propagation direction PS, pseudo-surface wave, faster than one polarization of bulk shear wave propagating in...

Formation of SA monolayers of phospholipids [217,242] and surface-active viologens [244, 245] on gold substrates, those of long-chain zirconium-phosphonates on silicon substrates [243], and those of alkanethiols on gallium arsenide substrates [246] have also been reported. 

Adlkofer, K., Eck, W., Grunze, M. and Tanaka, M. Surface engineering of gallium arsenide with 4-mercaptobiphenyl monolayers. Journal of Physical Chemistry 107, 587 (2003). 

A chemical species on the top-most layer of the solid (i.e., a surface species) occupies a site. For example, an arsine molecule adsorbed on a surface occupies a site, and could be denoted AsH3(s). Another example of a surface species is a bare gallium atom, Ga(s), on the top layer of a gallium arsenide crystal. What happens if another species, say a gas-phase AsH3, lands on top of the Ga(s) As shown in Fig. 11.3, the gallium atom that was at the surface is buried it is no longer designated a surface species. In this nomenclature it has become a bulk species. 

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FIGURE B.3 Individual atoms can be seen as bumps on the surface of a solid by the technique called scanning tunneling microscopy (STM). This is an image of the surface of gallium arsenide. The gallium atoms are shown as blue and the arsenic atoms as red (these are not their actual colors). 

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