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| Author(s): |
Tatiane Oliveira dos Santos
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Física Gleb Wataghin |
| Defense date: | 2009-12-08 |
| Examining board members: |
Jaime Frejlich;
Jesiel Freitas Carvalho;
Dario Antonio Donatti;
Cristiano Monteiro de Barros Cordeiro;
Lucila Helena Deliesposte Cescato
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| Advisor: | Jaime Frejlich |
| Abstract | |
A study of new photorefractive materials was performed through the techniques of wa-velength resolved photoconductivity and Speckle-photo-fem. Among this materials are the titanosillenites with different dopants and the group II-IV Photorefractive materials like the Cadmium telluride (CdTe) and the Zinc telluride (ZnTe), also doped, which are interesting for having a band gap smaller than that of the sillenites, and for being a lot faster than the sillenites. The mathematical model that describes the Photo-emf effect with an oscillating and high amplitude speckle pattern was developed, becoming the most complete model in existence. The new model predicts the presence of a maximum in the signal of speckle-photo-emf for a determined value of the amplitude normalized over the size of the speckle d , in conformity with the experimental results. Was also verified that the position of this maximum is strongly depen-dent on the relation between the dark conductivity and photoconductivity (Rd). Through the technique of wavelength resolved photoconductivity the samples of pure and doped BTO, CdTe and ZnTe were studied and it was possible to identify some localized states inside the band gap of those materials. From that, some crystals like the BTO, CdTe:V and CdTe:Ge were se-lected for the experiments on transversal vibration measurement using the Speckle-photo-emf technique. The speckle-photo-emf experiments were, for the first time, used to characterize photorefractive materials, from the determination of the response time and the estimate of their dark conductivity. (AU) | |