T. Nishiwaki, Z. Sun, D. Oka, T. Fukumura, T. Makino
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Abstract
We have observed a new optical transition in the photoreflectance spectra of indirect-gap BiOCl thin films, which were grown on SrTiO3 substrates. The position of this transition is close in energy to its bulk critical point (CP) energy. Moreover, these are significantly lower than a higher-lying direct-type CP from an energetic point of view. The spectral line shape analysis for our observed signal suggests the presence of an excitonic effect of this compound. We determined its dependence of the optical anomaly on temperature ranging from 80 K to RT. We adopted the Varshni model for this analysis. At last, we compared photonic properties of BiOCl with those of an element and binary semiconductors.
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