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Optical Absorption of Impurities and Defects in SemiconductingCrystals

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In this monograph, semiconductors and covalent or partially covalent insulators are considered. These materials differ from metals by the existence, at low temperature, of a fully occupied electronic band (the valence band or VB) separated by an energy gap or band gap (Eg) from an empty higher energy band (the conduction band or CB). When Eg reduces to zero, like in mercury telluride, the materials are called semimetals. In metals, the highest occupied band is only partially filled with electrons such that the electrons in this band can be accelerated by an electric field, however small it is.

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Pajot, B. (2009). Introduction. In: Optical Absorption of Impurities and Defects in SemiconductingCrystals. Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences, vol 158. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/b135694_1

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