Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10727741 | Physics Letters A | 2014 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
We study by photoluminescence the spatial distribution of minority carriers (holes) arising from their anomalous photon-assisted diffusion upon photo-excitation at an edge of n-InP slab for temperatures ranging from 300 K to 78 K. Giant enhancement in the spread of holes - over distances exceeding 1 cm from the excitation edge - is seen at lower temperatures. We show that the experiment provides a realization of the “Lévy flight” random walk of holes, in which the Lévy distribution index γ is controlled by the temperature. The variation γ(T) is close to that predicted earlier, γ=1âÎ/kT, where Î(T) is the Urbach tailing parameter of the absorption spectra. This theoretical prediction is based on the assumption of a quasi-equilibrium intrinsic emission spectrum in the form due to van Roosbroeck and Shockley.
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Authors
Arsen V. Subashiev, Oleg Semyonov, Zhichao Chen, Serge Luryi,