Ligand hyperfine interactions at silicon vacancies in 4H-SiCShow others and affiliations
2019 (English)In: Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, ISSN 0953-8984, E-ISSN 1361-648X, Vol. 31, no 19, article id 195501Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
The negative silicon vacancy (V-Si(-)) in SiC has recently emerged as a promising defect for quantum communication and room-temperature quantum sensing. However, its electronic structure is still not well characterized. While the isolated Si vacancy is expected to give rise to only two paramagnetic centers corresponding to two inequivalent lattice sites in 4H-SiC, there have been five electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) centers assigned to V-Si(-) in the past: the so-called isolated no-zero-field splitting (ZFS) V-Si(-) center and another four axial configurations with small ZFS: T-V1a, T-V2a, T-V1b, and T-V2b. Due to overlapping with Si-29 hyperfine (hf) structures in EPR spectra of natural 4H-SiC, hf parameters of T-V1a have not been determined. Using isotopically enriched 4H-(SiC)-Si-28, we overcome the problems of signal overlapping and observe hf parameters of nearest C neighbors for all three components of the S = 3/2 T-V1a and T-V2a centers. The obtained EPR data support the conclusion that only T-V1a and T-V2a are related to V-Si(-) and the two configurations of the so-called isolated no-ZFS V-Si(-) center, V-Si(-) (I) and V-Si(-) (II), are actually the central lines corresponding to the transition I-1/2 amp;lt;-amp;gt; I + 1/2 of the T-V2a and T-V1a centers, respectively.
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IOP PUBLISHING LTD , 2019. Vol. 31, no 19, article id 195501
Keywords [en]
silicon vacancy; hyperfine interaction; electron paramagnetic resonance
National Category
Condensed Matter Physics
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-155906DOI: 10.1088/1361-648X/ab072bISI: 000461213400001PubMedID: 30763923OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-155906DiVA, id: diva2:1301576
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Funding Agencies|Swedish Research Council [VR 2016-04068, VR 2016-05362]; Carl Trygger Stiftelse for Vetenskaplig Forskning [CTS 15:339]; Swedish Energy Agency [43611-1]; JSPS KAKENHI [A 17H01056]
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