FAR-INFRARED EMISSION BY RESONANT-POLARON EFFECTS IN NARROW-BAND-GAP HG1-XCDXTE

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作者
FUCHS, F [1 ]
SCHNEIDER, H [1 ]
KOIDL, P [1 ]
SCHWARZ, K [1 ]
WALCHER, H [1 ]
TRIBOULET, R [1 ]
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[1] CNRS BELLEVUE, PHYS SOLIDES LAB, F-92190 MEUDON, FRANCE
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.67.1310
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
摘要
We report on the first experimental observation of far-infrared emission within the reststrahlen band of a semiconductor. We have performed Fourier-transform emission experiments on narrow-band-gap Hg1-xCdxTe (x almost-equal-to 0.17). Under Ar+-laser excitation, we find an emission spectrum at the longitudinal-optical-phonon energies of the material (137.5 and 157.5 cm-1). The appearance of the optical emission signal is caused by interband polaron effects arising from the resonant matching between longitudinal-optical phonons and electron-hole excitations, as suggested in recent theoretical calculations.
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