Further investigations of the deep double donor magnesium in silicon
Further investigations of the deep double donor magnesium in silicon
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DOI:
10.1103/physrevb.98.045202
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发表时间:
2018-07-24
影响因子:
3.7
通讯作者:
Thewalt, M. L. W.
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作者:
Abraham, R. J. S.;DeAbreu, A.;Thewalt, M. L. W.
The deep double donor levels of substitutional chalcogen impurities in silicon have unique optical properties which may enable a spin/photonic quantum technology. The interstitial magnesium impurity (Mg-i) in silicon is also a deep double donor but has not yet been studied in the same detail as have the chalcogens. In this paper, we look at the neutral and singly ionized Mg-i absorption spectra in natural silicon and isotopically enriched 28-silicon in more detail. The 1s(A(1)) to 1s(T-2) transitions, which are very strong for the chalcogens and are central to the proposed spin/photonic quantum technology, could not be detected. We observe the presence of another double donor (Mg-i*) that may result from Mg-i in a reduced symmetry configuration, most likely due to complexing with another impurity. The neutral species of Mg-i* reveal unusual low-lying ground state levels detected through temperature dependence studies. We also observe a shallow donor which we identify as a magnesium-boron pair.