Invertis Journal of Science & Technology
  • Year: 2017
  • Volume: 10
  • Issue: 3

Bandgap reduction of InP and GaSb epitaxial layers containing Bi

1Department of Electronic Science, University of Calcutta, 92, A.P.C. Road, Kolkata-700009, India

2Department of Electronic Science, National Institute of Technology, Yupia, Arunachal Pradesh-79112, India

*E-mail: Bhowal.mithun@gmail.com

Online published on 11 October, 2017.

Abstract

We report on the growth of InPBi and GaSbBi epitaxial layers by liquid phase epitaxy. Photoluminescence measurements showed a bandgap reduction of 55 meV for InPBi and 24 meV for GaSbBi due to the incorporation of Bi in the III-V lattice.

Keywords

III-V-Bi, Photoluminescence, liquid phase epitaxy