Some characterisation results for GA,ln,-,As,P,-,,/lnP heterostructures grown by atmospheric pressure MOVPE are presented. Hall effect, doublecrystal x-ray diffraction, low-temperature photoluminescence and Shubnikov-de Haas effect were used. Very high mobilities in GalnAs/lnP heterostructures have been recorded: 10 750,92 000 and 153 000 cm2 V-' S" at 300,77 and 10 K respectively for a residual doping level of 2 x 1015 cm-3. These record figures have been related to the presence of a two-dimensional electron gas which is shown to have two populated sub-bands with a total sheet density of ns= 2.9 x IO" cm-' and a mobility of 250 000 cm2 V-' S" at 2.17 K. GalnAsP has also been grown with a low residual doping level ( 3 . 5 ~ IOl5 cm-3] along with high mobilities ~( 3 0 0 K) =4800 cm2 V" S-' , ,477 K) =31 000 cmz V" S-'. A single photoluminescence line has been recorded at 0.887 eV with a full width at half maximum of 8 meV at 4 K. Finally, the influence of lattice mismatch on GalnAshP heterostructures has been investigated: morphology, Hall mobility and electrical properties were studied. In particular, the band gap shift is well interpreted by assuming the breaking of valence band gap degeneracy at k= 0 induced by the biaxial strain.