Abstract
The luminescence and transmission of zinc diarsenide single crystals near the fundamental absorption edge have been investigated in the temperature range 4.2–300 K. Intense luminescence and absorption lines at 1.0384, 1.0488, and 1.0507 eV, referring to the ground state (n=1) and excited states (n=2, n=3) of a free exciton were observed at low temperatures. The free-exciton binding energy was found to be ∼13.9 meV on the basis of the hydrogen-like model and the direct band gap was found to be 1.0523, 1.0459, and 0.9795 eV at 4.2, 78, and 300 K, respectively.
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