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Dependence of the hole lifetime on uniaxial stress in Ga-doped Ge
- Source :
- Physical Review B. 51:7349-7352
- Publication Year :
- 1995
- Publisher :
- American Physical Society (APS), 1995.
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Abstract
- The effect of uniaxial stress on the hole lifetime in gallium-doped germanium single crystals has been studied by photo-Hall-effect measurements. We demonstrate that the stress dependence of the hole lifetime offers a critical test for competing models of the capture of holes by acceptors. We find that below 5 K the hole lifetime increases by over one order of magnitude upon the application of 4 kbar in a [l angle]100[r angle] direction. Our results show the hole lifetime to be proportional to the acoustic-phonon-scattering component of the hole mobility, in very good agreement with the cascade capture theory for Coulomb-attractive centers and in clear contradiction to the recently proposed model in which holes are directly captured into the acceptor ground state [Phys. Rev. Lett. [bold 69], 2839 (1992)].
Details
- ISSN :
- 10953795 and 01631829
- Volume :
- 51
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Physical Review B
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....960e2edfcec8f9127ba26282010330a7