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The shape of the photoluminescence line excited at an edge face of InP wafer and recorded from the broadside is used to investigate the intrinsic emission spectrum. The procedure is much less sensitive to the surface properties and the…
We present density-functional theory calculations of the optical absorption spectra of silica glass for temperatures up to 2400 K. The calculated spectra exhibit exponential tails near the fundamental absorption edge that follow the Urbach…
Disorder in photonic crystals and waveguides creates states inside the photonic band gap. These states are often described as Lifshitz tails despite exhibiting energy distributions inconsistent with Lifshitz statistics near the band edge.…
Implementation of a semiconductor as a scintillator with a lattice-matched surface photo-diode for radiation detection requires efficient luminescence collection. Low and heavily doped bulk n-InP has been studied to optimize luminescence…
We propose new models to describe the imaginary part of the electrical permittivity of dielectric and semiconductor materials in the fundamental absorption region. We work out our procedure based on the well-known structure of the…
The theoretical maximum efficiency of a solar cell is typically characterized by a detailed balance of optical absorption and emission for a semiconductor in the limit of unity radiative efficiency and an ideal step-function response for…
Tip-enhanced photoluminescence (TEPL) measurements are performed with sub-nanometer spatial resolution on individual molecules decoupled from a metallic substrate by a thin NaCl layer. TEPL spectra reveal progressive fluorescence quenching…
In this paper we consider the Interband Light Absorption Coefficient for various models. We show that at the lower and upper edges of the spectrum the Lifshitz tails behaviour of the density of states implies similar behaviour for the ILAC…
In crystalline semiconductors, absorption onset sharpness is characterized by temperature dependent Urbach energies. These energies quantify the static, structural disorder causing localized exponential-tail states, and dynamic disorder…
We study the optical properties of semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers under the influence of strong out-of-plane magnetic fields, using the effective massive Dirac model. We pay attention to the role of spin-orbit…
Recombination of minority carriers in heavily doped n-InP wafers has been investigated using spectral and time-resolved photoluminescence at different temperatures. Studies of the transmitted luminescence were enabled by the partial…
We determine the electronic density of states for computationally-generated bulk samples of amorphous chalcogenide alloys As$_{x}$Se$_{100-x}$. The samples were generated using a structure-building algorithm reported recently by us ({J.…
We present an experimental method for the in-situ observation of directional-solidification fronts in bulk samples of transparent eutectic alloys. The growth front is observed obliquely in dark field through the liquid and a glass wall of…
We study the photoluminescence spectra excited at an edge side of n-InP slabs and observed from the broadside. In a moderately doped sample the intensity drops off as a power-law function of the distance from the excitation - up to several…
We study the photoluminescence spectra of n-doped InP bulk wafers, both in the reflection and the transmission geometries relative to the excitation beam. From the observed spectra we estimate the spatial distribution of minority carriers…
This paper presents a new technique of optical beam-induced scattering of mid-IR-laser radiation, which is a special mode of the recently developed scanning mid-IR-laser microscopy. The technique in its present form is designed for…
The performance of tip-enhanced optical microscopy is often limited by inefficient coupling of the excitation field to the plasmonic tip apex, as well as by thermal drift and optical aberrations. Here, we demonstrate that adaptive wavefront…
We propose an explanation of the mid-infrared peak observed in the optical conductivity of the Bechgaard salt (TMTSF)$_2$PF$_6$ in terms of electronic excitations. It is based on a numerical calculation of the conductivity of the…
In our investigation into the effects of the degree of polarization in modulation of partially polarized light we assume general settings of the interferometry of partially polarized lightwaves and perform theoretical analysis of the…
Photoinduced IR absorption was measured in (La(1-x)Sr(x)Mn)(1-\delta)O3. A midinfrared peak centered at ~ 5000 cm$^{-1}$ was observed in the x=0 antiferromagnetic sample. The peak diminishes and softens as hole doping is increased. The…