Resonant effects in the manifestation of hybridized electronic states of iron impurities in the temperature dependences of the absorption coefficient and velocity of ultrasound propagation in mercury selenide

Abstract

The temperature dependences of the absorption coefficient and phase velocity of 52-MHz ultrasonic waves in iron-doped mercury selenide crystals are studied. The presence of impurities in concentrations of about 1019 cm−3 is found to initiate the appearance of a resonance peak in the absorption coefficient at a temperature of about 5 K and the corresponding anomaly in the velocity of the slow transverse wave propagating in the 〈110〉 direction. It is shown that the observed effects can be accounted for by the interaction of ultrasound with electrons in the states created in hybridization of the iron impurity donor states with the conduction band states of the crystal. A straightforward theoretical description and quantitative interpretation of these effects are proposed and used to derive data on the hybridized states, which conform with the earlier treatment of the temperature and concentration anomalies of conductivity in the crystals under study.