Luminescence decay of distant donor-acceptor pairs in phosphorous-doped ZnTe

Luminescence decay of isolated donor-acceptor pairs has been measured over the range of pair distance R ～ 180 Å in phosphorous-doped ZnTe. Analysis of the recombination rate as a function of the pair distance suggests an asymptotic behaviour of the acceptor envelope function of the type exp(-r/a_A), with $\text{a}{}_{\mathrm{A}}\text{= 40 ± 10}\text{A}\text{?}$. This effective Bohr radius would correspond to an hydrogenic mass $\text{m}{}^1\text{= (0.13 ± 0.03)}\text{m}{}_{\mathrm{o}}$, which is close to the light hole mass as measured from cyclotron resonance experiments, $\text{m}{}^1\text{= (0.154 ± 0.005)}\text{m}{}_{\mathrm{o}}$. A discussion on the validity of the isolated donor-acceptor pair model is also given.