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Nature of the blue emission band in zinc selenide containing sulfur isovalent impurity

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The edge luminescence of ZnSe heterolayers on ZnSe substrates obtained by isovalent substitution is investigated. It is shown that the blue emission line originates from band-to-band recombination and the annihilation of excitons upon their inelastic scattering at free charge carriers.

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Original Russian Text © V.P. Makhniy, A.M. Slyotov, E.V. Stez, 2014, published in Fizika i Tekhnika Poluprovodnikov, 2014, Vol. 48, No. 9, pp. 1192–1193.

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Makhniy, V.P., Slyotov, A.M. & Stez, E.V. Nature of the blue emission band in zinc selenide containing sulfur isovalent impurity. Semiconductors 48, 1161–1162 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063782614090140

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