Accession Number:
AD0619532
Title:
GAAS LASER DIODES.
Descriptive Note:
Quarterly progress rept. no. 3, 1 Jan-31 Mar 65,
Corporate Author:
KORAD CORP SANTA MONICA CALIF
Personal Author(s):
Report Date:
1965-03-31
Pagination or Media Count:
20.0
Abstract:
Three different methods of junction formation were employed to obtain GaAs laser diodes for room temperature operation Diffusion of Zn into an n-type substrate under arsenic pressures of about 10 atmospheres, Deposition of an n-type layer onto a p-type substrate from a liquid Ga-melt, and Vapor epitaxial growth of an n-type layer onto a p-type substrate. The initial results of these measurements indicate that the high-pressure diffused junctions yield room-temperature laser diodes of a performance which is comparable to those in which the junction is grown by liquid solution epitaxy. Laser diodes in which the p-n junction had been formed by vapor phase epitaxy did not lase at room temperature. Author