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AUTHOR
Kamil B. Ucer
Time‐resolved absorption and luminescence following electron‐hole pair creation in ZnO
We report transient absorption induced by electron-hole excitation in undoped ZnO. A laser pump/continuum probe method covers 2–300 ps, and an electron pulse with lamp transmission covers 8–300 ns. The broad absorption spectrum increases monotonically with wavelength from 900 to 1600 nm. Following a reasonable hypothesis that the free-carrier-like induced infrared absorption is proportional to the total number of free carriers, excitons, and shallow-trapped carriers in the sample, these data allow setting an upper limit on the quantum efficiency of a specified lifetime component of luminescence. For the undoped commercial ZnO studied in this report, the quantum efficiency of room temperatur…
Subpicosecond Laser Spectroscopy of Blue-Light-Induced Absorption in KNbO3 and LiNbO3
Pulses of 427-nm light from am amplified Ti:sapphire frequency-doubled laser are absorbed in two-photon band-gap excitations of KNbO3 and LiNbO3. Induced absorption spectra measured in the visible and recently extended in the infrared have been recorded as a function of delay from 0 to 250 ps after two-photon blue excitation. Samples include stoichiometric as well as congruent LiNbO3. Comparison is made to transient absorption in the nanosecond and longer time range induced by electron pulses of~10 ns width and 270 keV energy. Parts of the absorption can be attributed to bound and free polarons, including the intrinsic electron polaron.
Exciton luminescence of boron nitride nanotubes and nano-arches
We report photoluminescence (PL) and PL-excitation spectroscopy of BN nanotubes (nt-BN) mixed with some residual hexagonal crystalline (h-BN) starting material, and of pure h-BN microcrystalline powder. The nanotube phase exhibits a broad-band PL near 380 nm, in agreement with a published report of cathodoluminescence from a sample comprising >90% nanotubes. This emission is almost 3 eV lower in energy than unrelaxed exciton states found in recent all-electron theories of nt-BN and h-BN and about 1.4 eV lower than the lowest (perturbed dark?) exciton seen in absorption of nt-BN. This may suggest that excitons in nt-BN vibrationally relax to self-trapped states before emitting, a path found …
Transient absorption of polarons in KNbO3
Abstract Transient absorption spectra have been measured in a number of undoped KNbO 3 crystals following two kinds of electronic excitation: two-photon absorption of 200 fs laser pulses and 10 ns pulsed electron beam. A band peaking at 0.8 eV and broad, poorly resolved absorption in the range 1.3–3.3 eV were observed. Based on similarity to the 1 eV band in LiNbO 3 previously identified as the intrinsic electron polaron (electron self-localized on niobium in the regular lattice site), we suggest that the transient absorption band at 0.8 eV in KNbO 3 is also associated with the intrinsic electron polaron.