A high-precision study of excited-state transitions of shallow donors in semiconductors
- 1 July 1977
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Journal of the Optical Society of America
- Vol. 67 (7), 947-951
- https://doi.org/10.1364/josa.67.000947
Abstract
Submillimeter laser and carcinotron sources have been used to study Zeeman transitions originating and terminating on the excited states of shallow-donor impurities in a variety of Ill-V and 11-VI semiconductors. Although weak compared to transitions from the ground state, these transitions have advantages in precision of measurement and in the accessibility of states parity forbidden from the ground state. In GaAs these studies show that the difference in energy between 2p, 2s, and 3d states can be described to an accuracy of better than 1% by variational calculations based on effective-mass theory. The results for the more polar material CdTe show deviations amounting to as much as 5% which in part can explained by the well-established “polaron pinning” and by a “polaron-induced Lamb shift” between the 2p and 2s states.Keywords
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