Raman-scattering probe of anharmonic effects in GaAs

Abstract

A comparative study of anharmonic effects in various structural forms of GaAs, namely crystalline, disordered and ion-implanted, and pulse laser annealed (PLA), using temperature-dependent Raman scattering, is reported for various phonon modes over the temperature range 10--300 K. The disordered and PLA samples are found to have greater anharmonicity than crystalline GaAs. The localized vibrational mode in PLA GaAs shows shorter relaxation time than the LO-phonon mode.