Muonium Charge-State Transition Energies in Si-Ge Alloys

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We propose longitudinal muon spin depolarization measurements for two additional samples of Si(1-x)Ge(x) alloys in order to complete our study of the dependence of Mu(-/0) acceptor level energies on alloy composition and the T-site configuration. A sample with x=0.87 will help better determine where the T(Si2Ge2) related level crosses the valence band edge, implying that a negatively charge Mu ion will serve as the core for a shallow Mu acceptor state. We have already shown that the acceptor levels for T(Ge4) and T(Si1Ge3) are valence-band resonant above x=0.92 and x=0.80, respectively. The current data suggest the the T(Si2Ge2) level enters the band near x=0.86, thus the level for x=0.87 should lie just below the band edge. A sample with x=0.55 is important for confirmation of data suggesting that an alloy bowing parameter is needed to slightly lower the mid-range band edge.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.73947273
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/73947273
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Creator Miss Jingliang Miao; Dr P.W. Mengyan; Professor Alan Drew; Dr Stephen Cottrell; Professor Roger Lichti
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2019
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Discipline Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2016-02-18T09:30:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2016-02-22T09:30:00Z