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isotopic silicon; excitons bound to impurities; phonons; luminescence
Abstract:
We have performed high-resolution photoluminescence
spectroscopy on silicon crystals with different isotopic
composition and investigated the effects of this composition on
the indirect electronic band gap and phonon energies. From the
relative energy shift of the indirect electronic band gap
between two crystals of different isotopic composition, the
zero-point renormalization energy of that electronic band gap
was estimated. The experimentally determined phonon frequency
shifts between crystals of different isotopic composition are
compared with theoretically predicted frequency shifts. We
further present a detailed analysis of the different
contributions leading to the observed phonon frequency shifts.
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