Light Absorption near Threshold with Phonon Participation for Impurities in Semiconductors

Abstract

It is presented a simple model for the calculation of the transition rate for impurities in semiconductors in which electron-phonon interaction is taken into account in a second order time dependent perturbation theory. This result shows the explicit dependence of the transition rate on the phonon density of states and that the absorption curve of a semiconductor is modulated by the phonon structure.