Frequency Dependence of the Dielectric Loss Angle in Disordered Semiconductors in the Terahertz Frequency Range

摘要

Frequency dependence of the real part of the conductivity sigma(1)(omega) in the region of the transition from almost linear (s 1) to quadratic (s ae 2) can indicate a change in the conduction mechanism (the transition from the variable-range to the fixed-range hopping with increasing frequency); in this case, the sharpness of the change in the slope of the frequency characteristic is related to the dependence of the preexponential factor of the resonance integral on the intercenter distance in the pair. The frequency dependence of the imaginary part of the conductivity sigma(2)(omega) has no kink in the vicinity of the transition frequency omega cr, remaining almost linear. A large dielectric loss angle |cot gamma| = |sigma(2)|/sigma(1) can indicate that the imaginary part of the conductivity at omega omega(cr) is defined by the larger zero-phonon contribution in sigma(2) (res) the region of weak variation in the loss angle gamma(omega), which significantly exceeds the relaxation contribution sigma(2) (re1).