We have studied electrical properties and low‐temperature photoluminescence of n+‐layers produced by Si and Si+P ion implantation into undoped and indium‐doped liquid encapsulated Czochralski (LEC) grown GaAs semi‐insulating (SI) substrates. The effects of implant dosage are considered. It is shown that when compared to Si‐only implantation, the Si+P co‐implantation leads to suppression of the deep level defect formation in the anion sublattice, increasing the donor activation efficiency, and obtaining a sharper concentration profile of implanted atoms in both types of substrates. An additional improvement in radiation defect annealing can be obtained using indium‐doped GaAs matrix. However, no extra enhancement in donor activation efficiency due to In‐doping was observed.