ITOH, N;
TANIMURA, K;
STONEHAM, AM;
HARKER, AH;
(1989)
THE LATTICE-RELAXATION ENERGY ASSOCIATED WITH SELF-TRAPPING OF A POSITIVE HOLE AND AN EXCITON IN ALKALI-HALIDES.
J PHYS-CONDENS MAT
, 1
(25)
3911 - 3918.
10.1088/0953-8984/1/25/003.
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Abstract
The authors have evaluated the upper and lower bounds to the lattice relaxation energy gained on the self-trapping of excitons, using experimental values of transition energies for free and self-trapped excitons and theoretical values for lattice relaxation energies and optical transition energies. The lattice relaxation energy upon self-trapping of an exciton in alkali halides proves to be appreciably larger than that of a self-trapped hole. They discuss the implications for a number of solid state processes including the production mechanism of F and H centres and the desorption of halogen atoms following valence electron excitation.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | THE LATTICE-RELAXATION ENERGY ASSOCIATED WITH SELF-TRAPPING OF A POSITIVE HOLE AND AN EXCITON IN ALKALI-HALIDES |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1088/0953-8984/1/25/003 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0953-8984/1/25/003 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Text made available to UCL Discovery by kind permission of IOP Publishing, 2012 |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Physics and Astronomy |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/162755 |
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