2009/03/26 by Mladen Georgiev, Georgiev, Mladen
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films #FOS: Physical sciences #Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci) #Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures #Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other) #cond-mat.mtrl-sci #cond-mat.other #nanoparticles nucleation surface interactions
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0903.4688
13 pages including 4 figures and 1 table, all pdf
arxiv created 2009/03/26 · openalex publication_date 2009/03/26 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Nearly half a century ago, I joined an ambitious research project aimed at establishing the mechanism of photodecomposition of ionic salts. We measured the mobilities and lifetimes of photoelectrons and photoholes in silver bromide in order to get an early-stage knowledge of the process. The last pairs of quantities to study were the diffusion coefficients for which we got results, highly controversial at that time. Now we show that the diffusion data suggest the formation of itinerant Jahn Teller small polarons as the next-stage photo-carriers in silver halides.