Comment on “Some considerations concerning the detection of excitons by field ionization in a Schottky barrier”

André Mysyrowicz (1) , P. J. Leblanc (2) , F. Fortin (2)

1 LOA - Laboratoire d'optique appliquée
2 Department of Physics [Ottawa]

We revisit the detection of excitons in Cu2O by the exciton-mediated effect. It is shown that this type of detector is linear over a wide range of exciton densities, contrary to a recent claim that it should quickly saturate.

Domains: Physics [physics]; Physics [physics]; Optics [physics.optics]

André Mysyrowicz, P. J. Leblanc, F. Fortin. Comment on “Some considerations concerning the detection of excitons by field ionization in a Schottky barrier”. physica status solidi (b), 2003, 239 (1), pp.257-260. ⟨10.1002/pssb.200301862⟩. ⟨hal-00565611⟩