Use of Whispering-Gallery Modes and Quasi-TE_0 np Modes for Broadband Characterization of Bulk Gallium Arsenide and Gallium Phosphide Samples

The complex permittivity of bulk crystals of semiinsulating gallium arsenide (GaAs) and gallium phosphide (GaP) were measured over the frequency range from 4 to 30 GHz and at temperatures from 30 up to 300 K employing whispering-gallery-mode (WGM) and quasi-TE0np-mode dielectric-resonator techniques. At temperatures about 40 K, dielectric loss tangent values were below 10-6for GaAs and below 10-5for GaP. The use of several WGMs, as well as TE0npmodes excited in the same test sample enabled a broad frequency range of measurements (one decade). The real part of the permittivity of GaP and GaAs proved to be frequency independent at microwave frequencies. The dielectric loss tangents of GaAs and GaP increase with temperature and frequency.