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Far-Infrared Two-Phonon Absorption in GaP and GaAs

Author(s)

Simon G. Kaplan, H M. Lawler, Eric L. Shirley, S Bhat, M E. Thomas

Abstract

We present detailed temperature dependent absorption spectra of GaP and GaAs at wavenumbers from 20 cm-1 to 350 cm-1 and temperatures between 10 K and 295 K. Comparison of the experimental data with the predictions of recent ab initio anharmonic lattice calculations for these materials shows good qualitative and quantitative agreement in the phonon overtone, sum-band, and difference-band absorption at frequencies below the fundamental transverse-optical (TO) modes. Prominent features in the absorption spectra, long identified with phonons having wavevectors at critical points in the zincblende hexagonal Brillouin zone, are found to be reproduced by the theory with position, oscillator strength, and temperature dependence that follow the observed data.
Citation
Physica C-Superconductivity and Its Applications

Keywords

absorption, far-infrared, GaAs, GaP, multiphonon

Citation

Kaplan, S. , Lawler, H. , Shirley, E. , Bhat, S. and Thomas, M. (1970), Far-Infrared Two-Phonon Absorption in GaP and GaAs, Physica C-Superconductivity and Its Applications (Accessed March 28, 2024)
Created August 26, 2016, Updated February 17, 2017