Expand this Topic clickable element to expand a topic
Skip to content
Optica Publishing Group

One electron and discrete excitonic contributions to the optical response of semiconductors around E 1 transition: analysis in the reciprocal space

Not Accessible

Your library or personal account may give you access

Abstract

Spectroscopic ellipsometry (SE) has been utilized during the past decades for the measurement of the dielectric function of semiconductors. By using SE, interband critical point parameters such as energy gaps and broadenings are routinely determined. In the direct-space analysis approach, these parameters are known by taking the numerical energy derivatives of the dielectric function and fitting the spectra by using a Lorenzian line shape. However, in many cases the noise of the spectra does not allow the determination of such parameters as precisely as they are needed. Additionally, the determination of the character of the transitions, which is uncorrelated (one electron) or correlated (discrete excitons), is necessary for the analysis of the dielectric function. For instance, different values for the broadening parameter are obtained by using uncorrelated or correlated line shapes. We use a reciprocal-space analysis instead of the most commonly used direct-space analysis for determining without any uncertainty the character and, consequently, a precise value of the broadening parameter of the E1 transitions of GaP, GaAs, Si, CdTe, GaSb, HgTe, and an alloy semiconductor: Cd0.18Hg0.82Te.

© 2009 Optical Society of America

Full Article  |  PDF Article
More Like This
Ellipsometry of rough CdTe(211)B-Ge(211) surfaces grown by molecular beam epitaxy

Giacomo Badano, Philippe Ballet, Jean-Paul Zanatta, Xavier Baudry, Alain Million, and James W. Garland
J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 23(10) 2089-2096 (2006)

Room-temperature excitonic nonlinear-optical effects in semiconductor quantum-well structures

D. S. Chemla and D. A. B. Miller
J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 2(7) 1155-1173 (1985)

Cited By

You do not have subscription access to this journal. Cited by links are available to subscribers only. You may subscribe either as an Optica member, or as an authorized user of your institution.

Contact your librarian or system administrator
or
Login to access Optica Member Subscription

Figures (10)

You do not have subscription access to this journal. Figure files are available to subscribers only. You may subscribe either as an Optica member, or as an authorized user of your institution.

Contact your librarian or system administrator
or
Login to access Optica Member Subscription

Tables (1)

You do not have subscription access to this journal. Article tables are available to subscribers only. You may subscribe either as an Optica member, or as an authorized user of your institution.

Contact your librarian or system administrator
or
Login to access Optica Member Subscription

Equations (8)

You do not have subscription access to this journal. Equations are available to subscribers only. You may subscribe either as an Optica member, or as an authorized user of your institution.

Contact your librarian or system administrator
or
Login to access Optica Member Subscription

Select as filters


Select Topics Cancel
© Copyright 2024 | Optica Publishing Group. All Rights Reserved