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        <journal-title>St. Petersburg Polytechnic University Journal: Physics and Mathematics</journal-title>
        <trans-title-group xml:lang="ru">
          <trans-title>Научно-технические ведомости СПбГПУ. Физико-математические науки</trans-title>
        </trans-title-group>
      </journal-title-group>
      <issn pub-type="epub">2304-9782, 2618-8686, 2405-7223</issn>
    </journal-meta>
    <article-meta>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">3</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.18721/JPM.181.103</article-id>
      <title-group>
        <article-title>Epitaxial growth AlGaAs from Bi-containing melts</article-title>
        <trans-title-group xml:lang="ru">
          <trans-title>Эпитаксиальный рост AlGaAs из Bi-содержащих расплавов</trans-title>
        </trans-title-group>
      </title-group>
      <contrib-group>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">0000-0002-6373-9289</contrib-id>
          <name>
            <surname>Khvostikova</surname>
            <given-names>Olga</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/>
          <email>olgakhv@mail.ioffe.ru</email>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Kornienko</surname>
            <given-names>Polina</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/>
          <email>polina.kornienko.2003@mail.ru</email>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">0000-0003-0107-504X</contrib-id>
          <name>
            <surname>Khvostikov</surname>
            <given-names>Vladimir</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/>
          <email>vlkhv@scell.ioffe.ru</email>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Salii</surname>
            <given-names>Roman</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/>
          <email>r.saliy@mail.ioffe.ru</email>
        </contrib>
      </contrib-group>
      <aff id="aff1">Ioffe Institute</aff>
      <pub-date publication-format="electronic" date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2025-05-14">
        <day>14</day>
        <month>05</month>
        <year>2025</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>18</volume>
      <issue>1.1</issue>
      <fpage>17</fpage>
      <lpage>21</lpage>
      <abstract xml:lang="en">
        <p>Liquid-phase epitaxy from gallium melts is generally associated with difficulties arising in obtaining epitaxial layers of n-type conductivity in the high-temperature growth range, especially using a graphite boat. One of the possibilities for purifying the epitaxial layer from background impurities and reducing the concentration of antistructural defects is using Bi-containing melt solutions. A high initial crystallization temperature is necessary to obtain a thick (50 μm and more) AlGaAs epitaxial layer. Relatively thick graded AlxGa1−xAs layers are used to obtain photovoltaic converters with lateral input of laser radiation, as well as in high-brightness light-emitting diodes. At an initial epitaxy temperature above 850 °C from the liquid phase in a graphite boat, intentionally undoped GaAs and AlGaAs layers change the conductivity type from n- to p-type. This paper shows that adding bismuth to the melt allows preserving the initial n-type conductivity of the grown AlGaAs layers, which simplifies the technological process of creating a photovoltaic device structure with a given doping level of the epitaxial layers. It is shown that the concentration of impurity centers decreases with an increase in the bismuth content in the gallium melt.</p>
      </abstract>
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        <kwd>photovoltaic converter</kwd>
        <kwd>liquid phase epitaxy</kwd>
        <kwd>AlGaAs</kwd>
        <kwd>background impurities</kwd>
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