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JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS
Volume 107, Issue 8, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.3372760
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- Office of Naval Research
- NSF [NSF-DMR-06446842]
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The optical absorption of defect centers in SrTiO3 substrates grown by the Vernuil method are investigated using photoinduced electron paramagnetic resonance (photo-EPR) at room temperature. As received samples revealed EPR signatures for Fe3+, Cr3+, Mn4+, and an iron-oxygen vacancy complex, Fe3+VO. An anneal in dry oxygen at 800 degrees C decreased the intensity of all of the centers except, Mn4+. More significantly, the anneal induced a new charge state of Fe, Fe5+. Photo-EPR data of the annealed samples were interpreted in terms of two defect levels, the 4+ to 5+ transition of Fe (Fe4+/5+) at 2.5 eV below the conduction band edge and the 3+ to 4+ transition of the iron-oxygen vacancy complex (Fe3+/4+VO) at 1.2 eV above the valence band edge. The former is consistent with reported defect levels and the latter provides a modified value based on measurements over a larger portion of the band gap than had been reported previously. (C) 2010 American Institute of Physics. [doi: 10.1063/1.3372760]
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