Published January 21, 2005 | Version v1
Journal article

Exciton interaction with impurity in barium fluoride crystals

  • 1. Vinogradov Institute of Geochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Siberian Branch, Favorskii street 1a, P.O. Box 4019, Irkutsk 664033 (Russian Federation)

Description

Optical absorption excitation and emission of alkaline-earth fluoride crystals doped with impurities, which did not introduce a new absorption band up to 8 eV, were investigated. Comparison of emission of BaF2-LaF3, BaF2-KF and doubly doped BaF2-LaF3, KF shows that interstitial fluorines are not the main exciton suppressors as thought before.The two stages of exciton suppression on the plot of exciton intensity against impurity concentration were observed. The first stage has the interaction length near 130 A, while the interaction lengths of second stage are 10-30 A, depending on impurity

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.nima.2004.07.237;
PII
S0168-9002(04)01785-1;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Journal Volume
537
Journal Issue
1-2
Journal Page Range
p. 71-75
ISSN
0168-9002
CODEN
NIMAER

Conference

Title
7. international conference on inorganic scintillators and their use in scientific and industrial applications
Acronym
SCINT 2003
Dates
8-12 Sep 2003
Place
Valencia (Spain)

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