Vibrational lifetime of bond-center hydrogen in crystalline silicon

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Budde, M [1 ]
Lüpke, G
Cheney, CP
Tolk, NH
Feldman, LC
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[1] Vanderbilt Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, Nashville, TN 37235 USA
[2] Coll William & Mary, Dept Appl Sci, Williamsburg, VA 23187 USA
[3] Oak Ridge Natl Lab, Div Solid State, Oak Ridge, TN 37831 USA
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.1452
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O4 [物理学];
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The lifetime of the stretch mode of bond-center hydrogen in crystalline silicon is measured to be T-1 = 7.8 +/- 0.2 ps with time-resolved, transient bleaching spectroscopy. The low-temperature spectral width of the absorption line due to the stretch mode converges towards its natural width for decreasing hydrogen concentration C-H, and nearly coincides with the natural width for C-H similar to 1 ppm. The lifetimes of the Si-H stretch modes of selected hydrogen-related defects are estimated from their spectral widths and shown to range from 1.6 to more than 37 ps.
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