Magnetic Field Effect on the Hypersonic Attenuation by Shallow Donors in Ge

Abstract

The magnetic field effect on the hypersonic attenuation in Sb-doped Ge has been measured over the range from 0 to 200 kG at liquid He temperatures. The attenuation was observed to decrease as the magnetic field was increased at high field. The magnetic field dependence of the attenuation in the case of 1×10 15 /cm 3 doped specimen differs from that of 1×10 16 /cm 3 doped specimen. The experimental results are not quantitatively explained by the theoretical treatment which takes into consideration only the Zeeman effect on the single and the triplet states. If it is assumed that the effective Bohr radius of the donor electron is larger than the known values by other experimental methods, the semiquantitative agreement is obtained by calculating the shrinkage effect of the donor wave function.