Large and persistent photoconductivity (LPPC) in semiconductors is due to the trapping of photo-generated minority carriers at crystal defects. Theory has suggested that anion vacancies in II-VI semiconductors are responsible for LPPC due to negative-U behavior, whereby two minority carriers become kinetically trapped by lattice relaxation following photo-excitation. By performing a detailed analysis of photoconductivity in CdS, we provide experimental support for this negative-U model of LPPC. We also show that LPPC is correlated with sulfur deficiency. We use this understanding to vary the photoconductivity of CdS films over nine orders of magnitude, and vary the LPPC characteristic decay time from seconds to 10^4 seconds, by controlling the activities of Cd^{2+} and S^{2-} ions during chemical bath deposition. We suggest a screening method to identify other materials with long-lived, non-equilibrium, photo-excited states based on the results of ground-state calculations of atomic rearrangements following defect redox reactions, with a conceptual connection to polaron formation.
Observation of persistent photoconductivity in bulk Gallium Arsenide and Gallium Phosphide samples at cryogenic temperatures using the Whispering Gallery mode method
Superhydrides on the way to ambient pressure: weak localization and persistent X-ray photoconductivity in BaSiH$_{8}$
Center for High Pressure Science & Technology Advanced Research(高压力科学与技术先进研究中心);Hochfeld-Magnetlabor Dresden (HLD-EMFL) and Würzburg-Dresden Cluster of Excellence ctd.qmat, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf(德累斯顿强磁场实验室 (HLD-EMFL) 和维尔茨堡-德累斯顿卓越集群 ctd.qmat,德累斯顿罗森多夫亥姆霍兹中心);Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute (JASRI)(日本同步辐射研究所 (JASRI));Center for Science and Technology under Extreme Conditions, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University(大阪大学工程科学研究极端条件科学与技术中心);V. L. Ginzburg Center for High-Temperature Superconductivity and Quantum Materials(V. L. 金兹堡高温超导与量子材料中心);National Research University Higher School of Economics(国立研究型大学高等经济大学);Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma(罗马智慧大学物理系);Department of Materials and Environmental Chemistry, Stockholm University(斯德哥尔摩大学材料与环境化学系);Department of Electrotechnology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague(布拉格捷克理工大学电气工程学院电工技术系);Elettra - Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A.(的里雅斯特同步辐射中心 Elettra - Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A.);A.V. Shubnikov Institute of Crystallography of the Kurchatov Complex of Crystallography and Photonics (KKKiF)(库尔恰托夫晶体学与光子学复合体 A.V. 舒布尼科夫晶体学研究所 (KKKiF));Shanghai Advanced Research in Physical Sciences (SHARPS)(上海物理科学先进研究 (SHARPS));Center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research (HPSTAR)(高压力科学与技术先进研究中心 (HPSTAR))
Optical control of conductivity type and valley polarization via persistent photoconductivity in (Pb,Sn)Se quantum wells
International Research Centre MagTop, Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences(波兰科学院物理研究所磁学国际研究中心);Laboratoire de Physique de l’Ecole normale supérieure, ENS, Université PSL, CNRS, Sorbonne Université(巴黎高等师范学院物理实验室,ENS,PSL大学,CNRS,索邦大学);National Technical University ”KhPI”(国立技术大学(哈尔科夫理工学院));Laboratoire National des Champs Magnétiques Intenses, CNRS, LNCMI, Université Grenoble Alpes, Univ. Toulouse, INSA Toulouse, EMFL(强磁场国家实验室,CNRS,LNCMI,格勒诺布尔阿尔卑斯大学,图卢兹大学,图卢兹国立理工学院,EMFL);Department of Physics, Chungnam National University(忠南国立大学物理系);Institute for Sciences of the Universe, Chungnam National University(忠南国立大学宇宙科学研究所)