Influence of nonstoichiometry on the Urbach’s tails of absorption spectra for CuInSe2 single crystals
- 15 July 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 80 (2) , 1106-1111
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.362914
Abstract
Optical absorption spectra of CuInSe2 single crystals were measured for the samples with −0.150≤x≤0.053, where x represents a degree of nonstoichiometry in the formula Cu1−xIn1+xSe2. The Urbach’s tail was observed for all samples between 90 K and room temperature. The Urbach’s energy, which represents an arbitrary intensity of exciton–phonon interaction, was almost constant for the Cu‐rich samples (xx≳0). Such an increase of the Urbach’s energy was explained to be due to enhanced electronic distortion caused by the compositional deviation from stoichiometry in terms of simultaneous influence of electron–phonon interaction and structural disorder.This publication has 24 references indexed in Scilit:
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