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Light Scattering in Solids

Part of the book series: Topics in Applied Physics ((TAP,volume 8))

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Most of this volume is devoted to light scattering in semiconductors with special emphasis on Raman scattering by phonons, and, in particular, resonant Raman scattering. Among semiconductors, the family of tetrahedrally coordinated materials, including the structures of germanium, zincblende, wurtzite, ternary chalcopyrites, and others, form an excellent laboratory for light scattering experiments. They are simple, their band structures are well understood and offer an enormous variety. Also, considerable information is available about their phonon spectra. Besides, semiconductors muster a number of interesting many-body-type quasi-particle excitations such as excitons, plasmons, polarons, polaritons, exciton drops, excitons bound to impurities, etc. These quasi-particles can sometimes be excited in a light scattering process. They can also be studied indirectly by observing resonances in other scattering processes, when the frequency of the scattered light is in the neighborhood of the quasi-particle frequency. Recently, Cu2O also became a one-material laboratory to test and analyze the mechanisms for Raman scattering processes. This material has, in contrast to zinc-blende, a large number of optical phonons at k = 0 and a forbidden direct edge with sharp excitons. This edge and excitons occur in a wavelength region very convenient for studies with tunable dye lasers.

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J. W. Goethe

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Cardona, M. (1975). Introduction. In: Cardona, M. (eds) Light Scattering in Solids. Topics in Applied Physics, vol 8. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-37568-5_1

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