Abstract
We report on a high-resolution photoluminescence and absorption study with the application of external stress and magnetic fields on the 0.97-eV () line. We determine the symmetry of the related center to be monoclinic . It is shown that satellite lines , , and , which are observed in luminescence or absorption, are local modes of the -line center. The low-energy local modes and both exhibit isotope effects upon implantation of the Si samples. The doublet structure due to and gives evidence that one substitutional carbon atom is incorporated in the complex. We observe a nonthermalizing and stress-independent triplet structure of the line in luminescence as well as in absorption with intensities almost identical to the natural abundances of , , and . This establishes our basic model of substitutional carbon atom interacting with a single silicon atom, , in a prominent position. Relaxation of the complex leads to a symmetry lowering from a trigonal defect configuration to a monoclinic symmetry with a (110) mirror plane. Two particular models are discussed in detail, one being a dumbbell having relaxed off a bond-centered position, the other being a carbon-vacancy complex similar to the electron-paramagnetic-resonance center.
- Received 23 June 1981
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.24.5874
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