19 research outputs found
Electron-Electron Relaxation Effect on Auger Recombination in Direct Band Semiconductors
Influence of electron-electron relaxation processes on Auger recombination
rate in direct band semiconductors is investigated. Comparison between
carrier-carrier and carrier-phonon relaxation processes is provided. It is
shown that relaxation processes are essential if the free path length of
carriers doesn't exceed a certain critical value, which exponentially increases
with temperature. For illustration of obtained results a typical InGaAsP
compound is used
Optical Detection of a Single Nuclear Spin
We propose a method to optically detect the spin state of a 31-P nucleus
embedded in a 28-Si matrix. The nuclear-electron hyperfine splitting of the
31-P neutral-donor ground state can be resolved via a direct frequency
discrimination measurement of the 31-P bound exciton photoluminescence using
single photon detectors. The measurement time is expected to be shorter than
the lifetime of the nuclear spin at 4 K and 10 T.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure
Localization corrections to the anomalous Hall effect in a ferromagnet
We calculate the localization corrections to the anomalous Hall conductivity
related to the contribution of spin-orbit scattering into the current vertex
(side-jump mechanism). We show that in contrast to the ordinary Hall effect,
there exists a nonvanishing localization correction to the anomalous Hall
resistivity. The correction to the anomalous Hall conductivity vanishes in the
case of side-jump mechanism, but is nonzero for the skew scattering. The total
correction to the nondiagonal conductivity related to both mechanisms, does not
compensate the correction to the diagonal conductivity.Comment: 7 pages with 7 figure
Tunable local polariton modes in semiconductors
We study the local states within the polariton bandgap that arise due to deep
defect centers with strong electron-phonon coupling. Electron transitions
involving deep levels may result in alteration of local elastic constants. In
this case, substantial reversible transformations of the impurity polariton
density of states occur, which include the appearance/disappearance of the
polariton impurity band, its shift and/or the modification of its shape. These
changes can be induced by thermo- and photo-excitation of the localized
electron states or by trapping of injected charge carriers. We develop a simple
model, which is applied to the center in . Further possible
experimental realizations of the effect are discussed.Comment: 7 pages, 3 figure
Storage of electrons in shallow donor excited states of GaP:Te
Tellurium donors in GaP have been ionized by phonon-assisted tunneling in the electric field of pulsed far-infrared laser radiation. In response to the laser pulse a photoconductive signal has been detected with a fast component that follows in time the laser pulse and a slow component that rises after the irradiation has ceased and finally exponentially decays with a strongly temperature-dependent time constant varying from several microseconds to milliseconds. It is shown that this temporal structure of the signal is due to a storage of carriers in the valley-orbit split 1s(E) shallow donor state. Observation of far-infrared to mid-infrared up-conversion demonstrates that the final step of cascade recombination is achieved by radiative transitions