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We have investigated stress effects on yellow exciton states in a Cu2O thin film sandwiched by MgO plates by measuring wavelength modulated (WM) absorption spectra and their thermal variations. In the WM absorption spectra, dispersive spectral structures owing to 2P~4P states in the yellow excitons are clearly resolved in the thin film sample. A stress due to the lattice mismatch between Cu2O and MgO provides a large red shift of the band gap in the green excitonic system. However, in the yellow excitonic transitions, it is found that a red-shift of the 2P excitonic state is much smaller than that in the green excitonic system. This result suggests that a shallow potential minimum for the yellow excitons is built up in the Cu2O thin film sandwiched by MgO plates.
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Contribution to the Topical Issue “Excitonic Processes in Condensed Matter, Nanostructured and Molecular Materials”, edited by Maria Antonietta Loi, Jasper Knoester and Paul H.M. van Loosdrecht.
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Iwamitsu, K., Aihara, S., Shimamoto, T. et al. Wavelength modulated excitonic spectra of Cu2O thin films sandwiched by MgO plates. Eur. Phys. J. B 86, 194 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2013-30595-4
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