J. Ibanez et al., Generalization of the hydrodynamical model to analyze Raman scattering by free carriers: application to n-InP, J LUMINESC, 87-9, 2000, pp. 595-597
The results of free-carrier density evaluation by means of Raman scattering
in doped semiconductors strongly depend on the electric susceptibility mod
el used to calculate Raman line shapes. Although the Lindhard-Mermin model
has proved to yield accurate results over a wide range of free-charge densi
ties, it involves a fair amount of numerical calculations, and simpler thou
gh less accurate models such as the Drude and the hydrodynamical models are
widely used. We propose an extension of the hydrodynamical model in which
nonparabolicity and temperature effects are taken into account. The resulti
ng extended model retains the simplicity of the hydrodynamical model and ye
t it improves significantly the agreement with the results of the Lindhard-
Mermin model. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.