Physics
Scientific paper
Jul 2010
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010njph...12g3037m&link_type=abstract
New Journal of Physics, Volume 12, Issue 7, pp. 073037 (2010).
Physics
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The irradiation of semiconductors with ultrashort laser pulses causes excitation of electrons from bound states (the valence band and deep atomic shells) to the conduction band, which produces non-equilibrium highly energetic free electrons. We apply a Monte-Carlo simulation technique to study the ionization and excitation of the electronic subsystem of a solid silicon target irradiated with a femtosecond laser pulse, obtaining the transient distribution of electrons within the conduction band. We take into account the electronic band structure and Pauli's principle for excited electrons. Secondary excitation and ionization processes induced by electrons in the conduction band and holes in the valence band were also included and simulated event by event. The temporal distributions of the density and the energy of excited electrons are calculated and discussed. We demonstrate that, due to the energy used to overcome the ionization potential, the final kinetic energy of the free electrons is significantly less than the total energy provided by the laser pulse. We extend the concept of an 'effective energy gap' for multiple electronic excitations, which can be applied to estimate the free-electron density after high-intensity vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) laser pulse irradiation. The effective energy gap depends on both the properties of the material and the laser pulse parameters. The concept provides a fundamental understanding of the experimentally accessible pair creation energy measured in the limit of long times.
Medvedev N. N.
Rethfeld Baerbel
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