Abstract
A free electron and a free hole in a crystal may be bound together due to the attractive coulomb field: in semiconductors such an electron-hole pair is similar to the Wannier-Mott exciton. The probability of binding into the fundamental state has been calculated by Lipnik[1]. Lipnik's model does not predict our recent low temperature measurements[2]. Actually the binding probabilities of excited states of excitons must be considered. This is the purpose of the present paper: a quantum model, (adequate in the low temperature limit) and a semi-classical model (adequate when the temperature rises) are presented.
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