corner
corner

Phys. Rev. B 60, 13265–13268 (1999)

Raman spectroscopy of hydrogen molecules in GaAs

Download: PDF (47 kB) Buy this article Export: BibTeX or EndNote (RIS)

A. W. R. Leitch* and J. Weber
Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung, Postfach 80 06 65, D-70506 Stuttgart, Germany

Received 11 March 1999; published in the issue dated 15 November 1999

The room temperature Raman vibrational modes of isolated H2, D2, and HD molecules in GaAs exposed to a H2, D2, and H2:D2 plasma, have been measured at 3911, 2827, and 3429cm-1, respectively. At low temperatures the ortho-para modes of the H2 line are resolved. Decreasing the temperature to 10 K causes the H2 Raman frequency to increase by 14 to 3925cm-1. A lack of splitting of the H2 mode under uniaxial stress confirms that the H2 molecule is free to rotate within the GaAs lattice.

© 1999 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.60.13265
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevB.60.13265
PACS:
71.55.Eq, 78.30.Fs, 33.20.Fb

*Present address: Department of Physics, University of Port Elizabeth, P.O. Box 1600, Port Elizabeth 6000, South Africa.