EXCITONIC ENHANCEMENT OF THE FERMI-EDGE SINGULARITY IN THE OPTICAL-SPECTRA OF DOPED SEMICONDUCTORS

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作者
MUELLER, JF
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[1] Serin Physics Laboratory, Rutgers University, Piscataway
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PHYSICAL REVIEW B | 1990年 / 42卷 / 17期
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10.1103/PhysRevB.42.11189
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T [工业技术];
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08 ;
摘要
Low-temperature optical-absorption and -emission spectra are calculated for n-type doped semiconductors in which the Fermi level is nearly degenerate with the exciton of a higher conduction band. It is shown that in such a system the Fermi-edge singularity can be strongly enhanced by the hybridization with the excitonic resonance. In fact, due to this enhancement the Fermi-edge singularity, which is usually only observed in absorption, also becomes visible in the emission spectrum, in accordance with recent experimental findings. © 1990 The American Physical Society.
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页码:11189 / 11193
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