Anharmonic effects in ZnO optical phonons probed by Raman spectroscopy

We report Raman spectroscopy measurements on ZnO crystals grown by the vapor transport method and annealed. Vacuum annealing is found to yield single crystals with ultra low density of defects. We focus on the optical E2 phonon linewidth temperature dependence in the 10?500 K range. The linewidth de...

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Autores: Millot, Marius, Tena-Zaera, Ramón, Muñoz-Sanjose, Vicente, Broto, Jean-Marc, González Gómez, Jesús Antonio|||0000-0002-0381-6393
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2010
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Cantabria (UC)
Repositorio:UCrea Repositorio Abierto de la Universidad de Cantabria
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.unican.es:10902/23620
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10902/23620
Access Level:acceso abierto
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Sumario:We report Raman spectroscopy measurements on ZnO crystals grown by the vapor transport method and annealed. Vacuum annealing is found to yield single crystals with ultra low density of defects. We focus on the optical E2 phonon linewidth temperature dependence in the 10?500 K range. The linewidth decrease at low temperature is analyzed and discussed in the light of anharmonic up- and down-conversion processes, unveiling strongly different behaviors for the two E2 phonons.