Structure of negatively charged muonium in<i>n</i>-type GaAs

Abstract

Muon level-crossing resonance and muon-spin-rotation measurements on heavily doped n-type GaAs:Si and GaAs:Te show that the majority of positive muons implanted at room temperature form an isolated diamagnetic muonium center located at a high-symmetry site with Ga neighbors along the 〈111〉 direction(s). These experiments, together with theoretical considerations, imply that negatively charged muonium is at or near the tetrahedral interstitial site with four Ga nearest-neighbor atoms. Except for zero-point energy differences, these results should model negatively charged isolated hydrogen in GaAs.