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EPL
Volume 113, Number 2, January 2016
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| Article Number | 26003 | |
| Number of page(s) | 6 | |
| Section | Condensed Matter: Structural, Mechanical and Thermal Properties | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/113/26003 | |
| Published online | 10 February 2016 | |
Polaron character of the near-EF band of cleaved In2O3(111) single crystals
1 Institut für Physik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Newtonstraße 15, 12489 Berlin, Germany
2 Leibniz-Institut für Kristallzüchtung - Max-Born-Str. 2, Berlin, Germany
(a) vscherer@physik.hu-berlin.de
Received: 6 January 2016
Accepted: 22 January 2016
The near-EF band of the in situ cleaved (111) surface of high-quality n-type In2O3 single crystals was investigated by high-resolution angle-resolved photoemission (ARPES) along the major symmetry lines of the three-dimensional Brillouin zone. Several criteria to pin down Fermi level crossings and Fermi momenta were applied. The near-EF band is of three-dimensional character connected to the bottom of the conduction band. Since the model of a degenerate semiconductor due to high n-type doping 
is not sufficient the interaction of electron and phonon degrees of freedom is discussed. It is found that the model of Landau-Pekar polarons is capable of describing the observed lineshape qualitatively and the bandwidth of the occupied part of the conduction band quantitatively.
PACS: 68.47.Fg – Semiconductor surfaces / 71.38.-k – Polarons and electron-phonon interactions / 79.60.-i – Photoemission and photoelectron spectra
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