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Samples of crystalline ZnTe with different concentrations of iron were prepared by the vertical high-pressure Bridgman method. Absorption and emission spectra were recorded at liquid-helium temperature in the region of the5 T 2(D)⇌5 E(D) infrared transitions of substitutional Fe2+(d 6) ions. In the range between 2400 and 2520 cm−1 a rich structure is observed showing more lines than predicted by plain crystal-field theory. The explanation of all these lines is found after introducing a vibronic Jahn-Teller term to the Hamiltonian. A linear coupling between the doubly degenerate vibrational mode ɛ to the electronic orbitals of the ionic multiplet5 D is added to the electronic and vibrational terms of the Hamiltonian. A diagonalization follows using just one free parameter: the Jahn-Teller energy representing the strength of the coupling. The corresponding value is 3 cm−1, which is identical to the one already reported for CdTe∶ Fe2+. The calculated spectrum is in good agreement with the one determined experimentally. Measurements of the absorption spectra support conclusions drawn earlier about a Jahn-Teller coupling also for the excited multiplet. Finally a prediction of how the far-infrared would look like is also given.
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Schulz, H.J., Thiede, M., Pohl, U.W. et al. Infrared luminescence and vibronic coupling in ZnTe:Fe2+ . Z. Physik B - Condensed Matter 98, 215–221 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01324527
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