Published October 2005 | Version v1
Journal article

A time-resolved luminescence spectroscopy study of self-trapped excitons in NH4H2PO4 crystals

  • 1. Experimental Physics Department, Urals State Technical University, 19, Mira Street, 620002 Ekaterinburg (Russian Federation)
  • 2. Institute of Physics, University of Tartu, 142, Riia Street, 51014 Tartu (Estonia)

Description

A complex investigation of the dynamics of electronic excitations and luminescence in nonlinear optical crystals of ammonium dihydrophosphate NH4H2PO4 was performed using low-temperature vacuum ultraviolet luminescence spectroscopy with time resolution upon selective photoexcitation by synchrotron radiation. Data on the photoluminescence (PL) decay kinetics, time-resolved PL spectra (2-6.2 eV), and time-resolved PL excitation spectra (4-24 eV) were obtained for the first time for NH4H2PO4 crystals at 8 K. It is ascertained that the PL of NH4H2PO4 crystals in the vicinity of 4.7 eV has intrinsic character due to the radiative annihilation of self-trapped excitons. Possible channels of generation and decay of relaxed and unrelaxed electronic excitations in NH4H2PO4 crystals are discussed

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.jlumin.2005.02.016;
PII
S0022-2313(05)00067-0;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of Luminescence
Journal Volume
115
Journal Issue
1-2
Journal Page Range
p. 69-76
ISSN
0022-2313
CODEN
JLUMA8

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