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Luminescent Transitions Associated With Divalent Copper Impurities and the Green Emission from Semiconducting Zinc Oxide

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ABI

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Luminescent transitions at divalent copper impurities in ZnO give rise to a close-spaced, no-phonon doublet at \ensuremath{\sim}2.8590 eV, as well as a broad multiphonon side band. The transition is found to be an optical charge transfer between a highly shielded localized level of the copper impurity and a level which is strongly perturbed by the valence-band states of the crystal. The analysis provides information about the role of deep acceptor states in electronic processes in covalent solids.

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