Abstract
The spectroscopic characteristics and luminescence decay kinetics of Sr9Sc(PO4)7:Pr3+(1%) were investigated using synchrotron radiation of ultraviolet (UV), vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) and X-ray ranges, as well as pulsed cathodoluminescence (PCL) methods at temperatures of 10, 90, and 295 K. The luminescence spectra contain three groups of bands and lines. In the UV range, the observed bands correspond to interconfigurational 5d → 4f transitions in Pr3+ ions. In the visible spectrum, the wide luminescence band of defects dominates, as well as narrow lines associated with intraconfigurational 4f → 4f transitions in Pr3+ ions. When excited by an electron beam (5 Hz), the main component with a decay time τ ∼ 17 ns dominates in the decay kinetics of the 5d → 4f luminescence. The decay kinetics of 5d → 4f luminescence upon excitation with high-frequency (τ ∼ 8 MHz) synchrotron radiation of the X-ray range contains a fast component (τ ∼ 15 ns) against the background of the slow component of the μs-range. An effective nonradiative energy transfer is observed from impurity centers to defects, as well as from the host to Pr3+ ions and defects.
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Experiments using the VUV synchrotron radiation were performed 48B beamline at the Beijing Synchrotron Radiation Center (China). Experiments using synchrotron X-ray radiation were performed at the Center for Collective Use of the Siberian Center for Synchrotron and Terahertz Radiation on the basis of VEPP-3/VEPP-4M/NovoFEL INP SB RAS. The authors thank Sergey Omelkov (University of Tartu, Estonia) for assistance in PCL measurements and Erica Viviani (University of Verona, Italy) for assistance in the synthesis of the samples.
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The work was carried out with partial support from the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation (the basic part of the government assignment, project no. 3.8302.2017/8.9), Resolution No. 211 of the Government of the Russian Federation (contract no. 02.A03.21.0006), COST Action TD1401 “FAST” and project no. RFMEFI62117X0012.
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Pustovarov, V.A., Ivanovskikh, K.V., Khatchenko, Y.E. et al. Luminescence of Pr3+ Impurity Centers and Defects in Sr9Sc (PO4)7:Pr3+. Phys. Solid State 61, 758–762 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063783419050275
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