Abstract
Isotope shifts for various lines associated with excitations of transition-metal impurities in semiconductors are considered. Special attention is paid to for which experimental results are presented. Isotope shifts are measured for the so-called photoluminescence and zero-phonon lines associated with excitations of bound excitons, and of the zero-phonon line associated with the intracenter transition. These shifts appear to be negative and nearly equal. A theoretical model explaining these results is proposed, which incorporates the mode softening mechanism and the covalent swelling of the impurity electron wave functions. It is shown that, contrary to transitions in simple neutral impurities, this mechanism works both for the excited and ground states of all processes in transition-metal impurities considered here. Using reasonable values of the parameters of the system, we are able to explain both the sign and value of the isotope shifts.
- Received 15 October 1996
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.57.9690
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