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This paper reports the spectroscopic properties of praseodymium-doped lithium yttrium triple borates, Li6Y(BO3)3:Pr3+(1%). The complex of spectroscopic methods was applied. Emission upon X-ray and cathode beam excitation in the near IR and VIS-UV ranges as well as photoluminescence excitation spectra in region of 3.5 - 6.0 eV were studied. For this Pr3+- doped triple borates, the interconfigurational 4f15d→4f2 radiation transitions with nanosecond decay kinetics (τ ≈ 16 ns) were detected. Besides both the intraconfigurational 4f2 → 4f2 transitions and defect-related luminescence in visible and near IR regions were analyzed. Thermoluminescence glow was measured and parameters of charge carriers traps were determined. © 2019 Author(s).
| Funding sponsor | Funding number | Acronym |
|---|---|---|
| Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation | 3.8302.2017/8.9 | Minobrnauka |
| Government Council on Grants, Russian Federation |
This work has been partially supported by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation – basic part of the government mandate (Project № 3.8302.2017/8.9) and Act 211, Government of the Russian Federation (Contract № 02.A03.21.0006, the Center of Excellence “Radiation and Nuclear Technologies”). The X-ray excited experiments were partly performed at the Shared-Use Center “Siberian Synchrotron and Teraherz Radiation Center” based on VEPP-3/VEPP-4M/NovoFEL at Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics of Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Science. Authors thank Sergey Omelkov (University of Tartu, Estonia) for assistance in PCL measurements, Marco Bettinelli (University of Verona, Italy) for submitting certified samples for these primary studies and Konstantin V. Ivanovskikh (Ural Federal University) for the fruitful discussion.
Kiselev, S.A.; Institute of Physics and Technology, Ural Federal University, 19 Mira st., Ekaterinburg, Russian Federation;
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