dc.contributor.author | Webber, Daniel | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-12-19T12:20:10Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-12-19T12:20:10Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017-12-19T12:20:10Z | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10222/73546 | |
dc.description.abstract | Understanding the mechanisms responsible for the relaxation of charge carriers in
semiconductor systems is crucial for the development of novel devices based on these
materials. Transient four-wave mixing (FWM) is a powerful technique used to study
relaxation processes as it is intimately connected to these mechanisms. In this thesis
work, three di erent experimental implementations of FWM were used to study three
di erent semiconductor systems relevant for optoelectronic applications.
FWM was used to probe charge di usion in CH3NH3PbI3. CH3NH3PbI3 is an
attractive material for solar cell devices due in part to its large charge di usion length.
In this work, charge transport in CH3NH3PbI3 was directly measured resulting in a
calculated ambipolar di usion length of 0:95 m. Relative to the measured grain
size in this sample, the larger di usion length suggests that grain boundaries do not
signi cantly impact charge transport.
The properties of GaAs grown at lower than conventional temperatures can be
tailored via post-growth annealing. Spectrally-resolved FWM (SR-FWM) was used
to study the e ect of annealing on the coherent response of LT-GaAs. For low annealing
temperatures, an observed dip in the SR-FWM response was found to stem
from a polarization interference between the many-body exciton response and that of
the band tail response. The interband dephasing time was observed to increase for
increasing annealing temperatures. Extracted values for the Urbach energy of band
tail states revealed a dramatic decrease at 550 C.
SR-FWM and two-dimensional Fourier transform spectroscopy (2DFTS) were
used to study the interactions between bound and unbound electron-hole pairs in
GaAs. Through comparison with numerical simulations of the 2DFTS response it
was determined that exciton-carrier scattering was ten-fold stronger than excitonexciton
scattering, and that excitation-induced dephasing manifested in the real part
of the 2DFTS spectra stronger than excitation-induced shift. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.subject | Ultrafast | en_US |
dc.subject | Semiconductor | en_US |
dc.subject | Four-wave Mixing | en_US |
dc.title | Transient Four-Wave Mixing Studies of GaAs, Low-Temperature-Grown GaAs, and CH3NH3PbI3 | en_US |
dc.date.defence | 2017-12-07 | |
dc.contributor.department | Department of Physics & Atmospheric Science | en_US |
dc.contributor.degree | Doctor of Philosophy | en_US |
dc.contributor.external-examiner | Mark R. Freeman | en_US |
dc.contributor.graduate-coordinator | Ted Monchesky | en_US |
dc.contributor.thesis-reader | Ian G. Hill | en_US |
dc.contributor.thesis-reader | Kevin C. Hewitt | en_US |
dc.contributor.thesis-supervisor | Kimberley C. Hall | en_US |
dc.contributor.ethics-approval | Not Applicable | en_US |
dc.contributor.manuscripts | No | en_US |
dc.contributor.copyright-release | Yes | en_US |