Electron-phonon renormalization of the absorption edge of the cuprous halides

Details Electron-phonon renormalization of the absorption edge of the cuprous halides Electron-phonon renormalization of the absorption edge of the cuprous halides

2001-09-25

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0109453v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

14 pages, 5 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. B

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.65.125110

Compared to most tetrahedral semiconductors, the temperature dependence of the absorption edges of the cuprous halides (CuCl, CuBr, CuI) is very small. CuCl and CuBr show a small increase of the gap $E_0$ with increasing temperature, with a change in the slope of $E_0$ vs. $T$ at around 150 K: above this temperature, the variation of $E_0$ with $T$ becomes even smaller. This unusual behavior has been clarified for CuCl by measurements of the low temperature gap vs. the isotopic masses of both constituents, yielding an anomalous negative shift with increasing copper mass. Here we report the isotope effects of Cu and Br on the gap of CuBr, and that of Cu on the gap of CuI. The measured isotope effects allow us to understand the corresponding temperature dependences, which we also report, to our knowledge for the first time, in the case of CuI. These results enable us to develop a more quantitative understanding of the phenomena mentioned for the three halides, and to interpret other anomalies reported for the temperature dependence of the absorption gap in copper and silver chalcogenides; similarities to the behavior observed for the copper chalcopyrites are also pointed out.

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