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Solid State Communications, Vol. 68, No. 1l, pp. 1043-1046, 1988. Printed in Great Britain.
OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF SbSI:Co A N D SbSeI:Co SINGLE CRYSTALS Soonie Jeon, Gijun Cho and Wha-Tek Kim Solid State Physics Laboratory, Department of Physics, Chonnam National University, Kwangju 500-757, Republic of Korea and Sook-II Kwun Department of Physics, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Republic of Korea
(Received 15 July 1988 by J. Kanamori) Single crystals of SbSI:Co and SbSeI:Co were prepared by the Bridgman technique. The optical absorption spectra of these single crystals were investigated in the wavelength range 500-2500 nm. We determined the optical energy gaps of these compounds, and identified the electric states of cobalt impurity in these single crystals. We observed the impurity absorption peaks at energies of 14 000-4000 cm-i range due to cobalt impurity. It can be explained that the impurity absorption peaks are attributed to the electronic transitions between the energy levels of cobalt ions, which are sited in tetrahedral (Td) symmetry of crystal lattice as Co 3+ and Co 2+ ions. The crystal field parameters Dq are given by 697 cm -I for Co 3+ and 4 5 4 c m - ' f o r Co 2+ ions in SbSI:Co single crystals, and also 847cm -t for Co 3+ and 452 cm-t Co2+ ions in SbSeI : Co single crystals.
1. I N T R O D U C T I O N
2. E X P E R I M E N T A L
THE T E R N A R Y semiconducting compounds of the vA--vIA--vIIA-type have been investigated by many authors because of their ferroelectric and photoelectric properties [1]. Among the V A - V I A - V I Ig temary compounds, photo-ferroelectric semiconductors SbSI and SbSeI have a high photoelectric sensitivity, and have a larger band gap than the other photoferroelectric semiconductors. These desirable properties make these compounds promising optoelectronic materials. Therefore, the ferroelectric [2], optical [3], and electrical properties [4] have been studied in these compounds. However, there are no published results on the optical and electrical properties of SbSI and SbSeI doped with 3d transition metals. In this communication, the optical properties of SbSI:Co and SbSeI:Co single crystals doped from 0.25mo1% to 1 mol% of cobalt metal as impurity have been investigated. The optical energy gaps of these compounds were determined from the optical absorption measurements. We have identified for the first time the origin of the impurity optical absorption peaks observed in the optical absorption spectra of these compounds.
Single crystals of SbSI, SbSI:Co, SbSeI, and SbSeI : Co were grown with high purity elements (6N) by the Bridgman technique. It has been determined from X-ray diffraction analysis that these single crystals have orthorhombic structure with lattice constants a = 8.53A, b = 10.14A, c = 4.08A for SbSI, and a = 8.36A, b = 10.98A, c = 4.16A for SbSeI single crystals. The lattice constants of Co-doped single crystals are similar to that of undoped single crystals. For optical absorption measurements, the single crystals were cut perpendicular to c-axis and polished to obtain plane-parallel platelets with 0.4 mm thickness. The absorption spectra were measured using a UVVIS-NIR spectrophotometer (Hitachi, U-3400) in the wavelength range 500-2500 nm. All the optical absorption measurements were carried out at 291 K. 3. RESULTS A N D DISCUSSION 3.1. Optical energy gaps oJ SbSI: Co and SbSeI: Co single crystals The energy dependence of (cthv)1/2 near the
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fundamental absorption edge shows that the optical energy gap of pure SbSI and SbSI : Co single crystals is determined by indirect transitions, as shown in Fig. 1. The indirect energy gap of the pure SbSI single crystals, determined by extrapolation of Fig. 1, is given by 1.87 eV. For the single crystals of SbSi : Co doped with 0.5 and 1 mol% of cobalt, and indirect energy gaps are also given by 1.75 and 1.65eV, respectively. Figure 2 shows the dependence of (~hv) v2 on the incident photon energy in pure SbSeI and SbSeI:Co single crystals. The indirect energy gap in these single crystals, obtained from Fig. 2, is given by 1.62 eV for the pure SbSeI, 1.30 eV for the SbSeI: Co (0.5mo1%) and 1.01 eV for the SbSeI:Co (1 mol%) single crystals. The measured values of 1.87 and 1.62 eV of the indirect energy gaps for the pure SbSI and the pure SbSeI single crystals, which correspond to indirect transitions between F- and S-band in the band
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Acknowledgement -The present studies were supported by the Basic Science Research Institute Program. Ministry of Education, 1987. REFERENCES
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