Physics – Condensed Matter – Materials Science
Scientific paper
2009-03-26
J. Chem. Phys, vol. 134, 154511 (2011)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Materials Science
expanded and extensively modified, 20 pages, 7 figures
Scientific paper
10.1063/1.3576133
Single crystal silicon is an excellent system in which to explore dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP), as it exhibits a continuum of properties from metallic to insulating as a function of doping concentration and temperature. At low doping concentrations DNP has been observed to occur via the solid effect, while at very high doping concentrations an Overhauser mechanism is responsible. Here we report the hyperpolarization of 29Si in n-doped silicon crystals, with doping concentrations in the range of 1-3 x 10^17 /cc. In this regime exchange interactions between donors become extremely important. The sign of the enhancement in our experiments and its frequency dependence suggest that the 29Si spins are directly polarized by donor electrons via an Overhauser mechanism within exchange-coupled donor clusters. The exchange interaction between donors only needs to be larger than the silicon hyperfine interaction (typically much smaller than the donor hyperfine coupling) to enable this Overhauser mechanism. Nuclear polarization enhancement is observed for a range of donor clusters in which the exchange energy is comparable to the donor hyperfine interaction. The DNP dynamics are characterized by a single exponential time constant that depends on the microwave power, indicating that the Overhauser mechanism is the rate-limiting step. Since only about 2 % of the silicon nuclei are located within one Bohr radius of the donor electron, nuclear spin diffusion is important in transferring the polarization to all the spins. However, the spin-diffusion time is much shorter than the Overhauser time due to the relatively weak silicon hyperfine coupling strength. In a 2.35 T magnetic field at 1.1 K, we observed a DNP enhancement of $244 +/- 84 resulting in a silicon polarization of $10.4 +/- 3.4 % following two hours of microwave irradiation.
Cory David G.
Dementyev Anatoly E.
Ramanathan Chandrasekhar
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