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Phys. Rev. B 55, 13009–13019 (1997)

Crystal-field model of vanadium in 6H silicon carbide

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B. Kaufmann and A. Dörnen
4. Physikalisches Institut, Universität Stuttgart, 70550 Stuttgart, Germany

F. S. Ham
Department of Physics and Sherman Fairchild Laboratory, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18015

The optical transitions of vanadium V4+(3d1) on the hexagonal lattice site (h) of 6H-silicon carbide are studied by Fourier-Zeeman spectroscopy. The Zeeman splitting of the four zero-phonon lines is completely resolved. We first obtain the effective g factors from the Zeeman splitting. In a second step we apply a crystal-field description which successfully describes all spectroscopic data. We also discuss the role of the Jahn-Teller coupling in the excited state.

© 1997 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.55.13009
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevB.55.13009
PACS:
78.55.Cr, 71.55.Eq, 71.70.Ch