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Pressure Dependence of a Deep Excitonic Level in Silicon*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2011

G.A. Northrop  and
D.J. Wolford
G.A. Northrop
Affiliation:
IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598.
D.J. Wolford
Affiliation:
IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598.
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Abstract

Certain optically active defects in silicon provide a unique opportunity to observe, in detail, the effect of hydrostatic pressure on a deep level. We present a photoluminescence (5 – 100K) study of one such defect, the I, radiation-damage center, under high hydrostatic pressures (1–50 kbar). While the energy variation of this level indicates the expected mutli-band nature typical of a deep level, a severe and continuous reduction in the observed luminescence intensity was also observed. Temperature dependence, time resolved photoluminescence, and photoluminescence excitation spectroscopy are employed to attempt to discern the mechanism involved.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 163: Symposium G – Impurities, Defects and Diffusion in Semiconductors: Bulk and Layered Structures , 1989 , 27
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1990

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Supported in part by the U.S. Office of Naval Research under contract N00014-85-C-0868.

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