Photoemission signature of excitons

Avinash Rustagi and Alexander F. Kemper
Phys. Rev. B 97, 235310 – Published 18 June 2018

Abstract

Excitons, the particle-hole bound states, composed of localized electron-hole states in semiconducting systems, are crucial to explaining the optical spectrum. Spectroscopic measurements can contain signatures of these two-particle bound states and can be particularly useful in determining the characteristics of these excitons. We formulate an expression for evaluating the angle-resolved photoemission spectrum arising from the ionization of excitons given their steady-state distribution in a semiconductor. We show that the spectrum contains information about the direct/indirect band gap nature of the semiconductor and is located below the conduction band minimum displaced by the exciton binding energy. The dispersive features of the spectrum contains remnants of the valence band while additional interesting features arise from different exciton distributions. Our results indicate that for most exciton probability distributions, the energy-integrated photoemission spectrum provides an estimate of the exciton Bohr radius.

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  • Received 22 February 2018

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.97.235310

©2018 American Physical Society

Physics Subject Headings (PhySH)

Condensed Matter, Materials & Applied Physics

Authors & Affiliations

Avinash Rustagi* and Alexander F. Kemper

  • Department of Physics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695, USA

  • *arustag@ncsu.edu
  • akemper@ncsu.edu

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Vol. 97, Iss. 23 — 15 June 2018

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