We have measured under pressure Mössbauer spectra of FeS and 3c-type up to 16 GPa and x-ray diffraction patterns of up to 11 GPa at room temperature. It is found for that the compressibilities of the lattice parameters exhibit definite anomalies at around 4.5 GPa and that there is no change in the crystal structure up to 11 GPa. Magnetically ordered Mössbauer spectra are observed below 6.5 GPa for FeS and 4.5 GPa for , whereas the spectra above these pressures are typical of a paramagnetic ordering with a quadrupole splitting. A large reduction in the centre shift is observed at these pressures. It is found that there is a distinct steplike feature of the magnetic hyperfine field at 3.5 GPa for FeS. The electronic states of FeS and are deduced from the volume dependences of the centre shift and the magnetic hyperfine field. Below 3.5 GPa for FeS, the electronic state has an insulating character and the electrons on the iron are well localized and thus contribute to the magnetic moment. In the intermediate-pressure range, from 3.5 to 6.5 GPa for FeS and below 4.5 GPa for , the electronic state is like a semimetallic one. Above 6.5 GPa for FeS and 4.5 GPa for , the electronic bandwidth is large enough to cause the state to become metallic and produces a collapse of the iron magnetic moment.

We have derived an analytical formula for the excitation-power dependence of the free exciton photoluminescence (PL) intensity. It has been found that the PL intensity I depends on the power of the excitation laser L as I∝L k , where k is the power index. We have deduced the analytical formula that describes the value of k for the free exciton PL emission under the above-band-gap excitation conditions. The results indicate that the value of k is in the region of 1<k<2 depending on both the value of L and material properties such as radiative and competitive nonradiative recombination probabilities.

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The authors report that high-quality Zn1−xMgxO alloys are very brilliant light emitters, even more brilliant than ZnO, particularly in the high-temperature region; both the emission bandwidth and the oscillator strength of the photoluminescence from Zn1−xMgxO alloys increase remarkably with increasing Mg composition ratio x. The authors have revealed that the increase in the oscillator strength is mainly due to the increase in the activation energy required for the nonradiative recombination processes. Therefore, it is suggested that the localization of excitons, because of the compositional fluctuation, takes place in Zn1−xMgxO alloys and that the degree of the localization increases with increasing x.