Optical Band Gap and Birefringence of ZnS Polytypes
- 11 March 1966
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 143 (2), 501-505
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrev.143.501
Abstract
Birefringence and optical band-gap measurements were performed at 20°C on structurally uniform regions of ZnS crystals. The regions were of one of the following polytype structures: , , , , , , , , ; cubic () and hexagonal () regions were also investigated for reference. No stacking disorder was discovered in the regions studied. It was found that the absorption-edge positions (for polarization parallel and perpendicular to the optic axis) as well as the degree of birefringence depend only on the value of a single structure parameter . This parameter is defined as the percentage of (00.1) planes stacked in hexagonal order; its values were determined directly by x-ray structure analysis. The absorption edge positions were found to be linear functions of . This linearity is explained on the basis of Birman's perturbation treatment for electron states with k vectors parallel to the axis. It implies that in a polytype the perturbation potential caused by partially hexagonal stacking is proportional to . The degree of birefringence was found to be proportional to ; an outline of a simple dispersion treatment is given for the explanation of this proportionality. The established linear relationships between absorption edges, birefringence, and allow calculation of absorption-edge positions and values from birefringence measurements. This may facilitate investigations of structure-sensitive properties (e.g., the anomalous photovoltaic effect) of ZnS samples which are composed of regions differing from each other in structure.
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