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recombination energies. Therefore, depending on the position where an exciton recombines the emitted light has a different energy. The alloy broadening is an inhomogeneous line broadening, meaning that its shape is Gaussian.
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Schubert, E. F.; Göbel, E. O.; Horikoshi, Y.; Ploog, K.; Queisser, H. J. (1984-07-15). "Alloy broadening in photoluminescence spectra of Al
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In the mathematical description it is assumed that no clustering occurs within the alloy. Then, for a binary alloy of the form
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As the alloy broadening belongs to the group of inhomogeneous broadenings the line shape of the fluorescence intensity
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The alloy broadening is one of the line broadening mechanisms. The random distribution of
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in an alloy causes a different material composition at different positions. In
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broadening mechanism caused by random distribution of the atoms in an
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and insulators the different material composition leads to different
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being the atoms per volume. In general, the band gap energy
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of a semiconducting alloy depends on the composition, i.e.
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is the number of atoms within the excitons' volume, i.e.
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"Near-band-gap photoluminescence of Si-Ge alloys"
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1989PhRvB..40.5683W
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1984PhRvB..30..813S

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