Piezoelectric photoacoustic (PA) measurements on liquid-encapsulated-Czochralski-grown n-GaAs were carried out at room temperature. A continuous broad band below 1.35 eV and a peak at 1.383 eV were observed in the PA amplitude spectra. By comparing with the optical-absorption spectra, it is concluded that the broad band is due to the electron transition involving the EL2 deep-lying defect levels. For the observed peak at 1.383 eV, the origin is considered to be dislocation related. The possibility that this peak is an apparent one expected from the proposed models for the PA signal generation is denied.
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