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Experimental confirmation of detailed balance to an accuracy of 3$ is described for the R lines of ruby. The method avoids the problems introduced by the presence of vibronic transitions or nonradiative transitions. Separate measurements demonstrate the actual presence of a small amount of nonradiative de-excitation in ruby whose dependence on temperature suggests a multiphonon process. An apparent failure of detailed balance in bound exciton emission in donor-doped GaP or Si at low temperature can be well explained by an Auger process occurring in a complex consisting of an exciton bound to a neutral donor.
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Nelson, D.F. (1969). Studies of Nonradiative Recombination in Insulators and Semiconductors via the Principle of Detailed Balance. In: Haidemenakis, E.D. (eds) Electronic Structures in Solids. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6537-0_10
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