Research Article

Free-Electron Screening Mechanism of the Shallow Impurity Breakdown in n-GaAs: Evidences from the Photoelectric Zeeman and Cyclotron Resonance Spectroscopies

Table 1

Characteristics of different samples, grown by liquid-phase epitaxy (LPE) and vapor-phase epitaxy (VPE); the experimentally measured and theoretically predicted δ values of the line widths of donor lines at different cyclotron frequencies.

Samples (meV) (meV) δ (meV)

1 VPE4.330.52100.0640.070.2143.06
2 VPE7.350.657.30.070.080.2703.38
3 LPE8.670.537.30.150.160.2711.69
4 VPE1.460.385.70.0850.090.2973.03
5 LPE4.220.368.60.1360.140.1941.39
6 VPE4.310.52100.0620.0650.2143.29
7 VPEHigh purity0.0120.008