Doping and beyond: towards a common model for the ohmic contact formation mechanism in the Au/Te/Au/-, AuGe/-, and Ge/Pd/n-GaAs systems

Abstract

ABSTRACTThe results of our recent research on the ohmic contact formation mechanism in furnace alloyed Au/Te/Au/GaAs contacts are summarized, and preliminary Raman measurements on annealed Ge/Pd/GaAs structures are presented. The data and those reported in literature on the AuGe- and Ge/Pd- GaAs systems are argued to be more in agreement with the graded crystalline heterojunction concept (the formation of n+-Ge/GaAs, n+Ga2Te3/GaAs junctions) than with the doping model (the formation of n+-GaAs).