Excited muonium state in CdS

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Eshchenko, DG
Storchak, VG
Cottrell, SP
Cox, SFJ
机构
[1] Russian Acad Sci, Inst Nucl Res, Moscow 117312, Russia
[2] Russian Res Ctr, Kurchatov Inst, Moscow 123182, Russia
[3] Rutherford Appleton Lab, ISIS Facil, Didcot OX11 0QX, Oxon, England
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PHYSICAL REVIEW B | 2003年 / 68卷 / 07期
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10.1103/PhysRevB.68.073201
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T [工业技术];
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08 ;
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The process of electron capture by a positive muon in semi-insulating CdS has been studied using muSR techniques in electric fields. Weak electric fields of about 8 kV/cm are sufficient to suppress the muonium formation, suggesting electron capture into excited hydrogenic states. The data indicate the first excited (n=2) state to be the bottleneck to subsequent relaxation to the ground (n=1) state, serving as a guide to electron capture by an interstitial proton into shallow-donor state of the hydrogen impurity in a wide-gap semiconductor.
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