Self-Trapped Excitons in Silicon Dioxide: Mechanism and Properties
- 6 October 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 95 (15), 156401
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.95.156401
Abstract
Irradiating silica produces self-trapped excitons (STEs) that spontaneously create atomic-scale distortions on which they localize themselves. Despite enduring interest in STEs and subsequent defects in this key technological material, the trapping mechanism and geometry remain a mystery. Our ab initio study of STEs in -quartz using a many-electron Green’s function approach answers both questions. The STE comprises a broken O-Si bond with the hole localized on the defected oxygen and the electron on the defected silicon atom in a planar conformation. The results further explain quantitatively the measured STE spectra.
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