Published May 18, 2015 | Version v1
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Interfacial and bulk polaron masses in Zn1−xMgxO/ZnO heterostructures examined by terahertz time-domain cyclotron spectroscopy

  • 1. Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry CV4 7AL (United Kingdom)
  • 2. Department of Electronic Materials Engineering, Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, The Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200 (Australia)
  • 3. School of Electronics, Science and Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093 (China)
  • 4. Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Clarendon Laboratory, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PU (United Kingdom)
  • 5. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117576 (Singapore)

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The cyclotron resonance of polarons in Zn1−xMgxO/ZnO heterostructures (with 0.151−xMgxO/ZnO interface determined the polaron density, mass, and scattering rate. The cyclotron mass of 2D polarons was found to increase significantly with magnetic field B from 0.24 me at B = 2 T to 0.37 me at B = 7.5 T. A nonlinear cyclotron frequency with B was also observed for 3D polarons in ZnO. The findings are discussed in the context of polaron mass renormalization driven by the electron-LO-phonon and electron-acoustic phonon interactions

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Journal Title
Applied Physics Letters
Journal Volume
106
Journal Issue
20
Journal Page Range
p. 202103-202103.4
ISSN
0003-6951
CODEN
APPLAB

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