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The structure, IR absorption spectra, morphology, and photoluminescence spectral characteristics of Lu1–x–y Ce x Tb y BO3 solid solutions prepared by the hydrothermal synthesis method have been investigated. According to the X-ray powder diffraction data, the Lu1–x–y Ce x Tb y BO3 samples hydrothermally synthesized at a temperature T = 200°C have the vaterite structure, and all the observed diffraction peaks correspond to the hexagonal phase with the space group P63/mmc, which is isostructural to pure lutetium borate LuBO3. Annealing of these samples at T = 970°C leads to a change in the structural modification and to the transition of the samples to the monoclinic phase with the space group C2/c. It has been found that, after annealing of these samples at temperatures T = 800–970°C, the luminescence intensity of Tb3+ ions upon excitation in the absorption band of Ce3+ ions increases by more than two orders of magnitude and becomes much higher than that in compounds of the same composition, but prepared by high-temperature synthesis. At the same time, annealing of lutetium borate doped only with terbium does not lead to a significant change in the luminescence intensity of Tb3+ ions. The possible reasons for a multiple increase in the luminescence intensity of terbium ions due to the annealing of the hydrothermally synthesized lutetium orthoborate samples doped with cerium and terbium ions have been discussed.
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Original Russian Text © S.Z. Shmurak, V.V. Kedrov, A.P. Kiselev, T.N. Fursova, O.G. Rybchenko, 2017, published in Fizika Tverdogo Tela, 2017, Vol. 59, No. 6, pp. 1150–1160.
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Shmurak, S.Z., Kedrov, V.V., Kiselev, A.P. et al. Spectral and structural characteristics of Lu1 – x – y Ce x Tb y BO3 orthoborates prepared by the hydrothermal synthesis method. Phys. Solid State 59, 1171–1182 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063783417060257
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