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2071785 
Technical Report 
Comparative Mobility Degradation in Modulation-Doped GaAs Devices After E-Beam and X-ray Irradiation. (Reannouncement with New Availability Information) 
Ghanbari, RA; Burkhardt, M; Antoniadis, DA; Smith, HI 
1993 
NTIS/02982753_3 
GRA and I 
GRA and I 
We report on measured Hall mobility versus temperature for high-quality modulation-doped AlGaAs/GaAs samples after exposure by electrons and x rays at doses and energies typically used in lithography. We find that bare samples exposed by 50 keV electrons suffered significant mobility degradation over the temperature range of 4.2-300 K (as much as a factor of 30). X-ray-exposed samples did not show any mobility degradation. Two-dimensional electron densities were not dramatically affected by either exposure technique, although e-beam exposed samples did show a slight decrease in carrier density. Our results are consistent with previous reports of mobility degradation in some e-beam evaporators.