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Chemical analysis is used to study the structural changes on the surface of a ZnS-Cu, Pb phosphor arising in the course of photoluminescence in molecular hydrogen and radical-recombination luminescence excited by hydrogen atoms. The photolysis of zinc sulfide and its decomposition by an atomic-molecular mixture of hydrogen were observed. A mechanism for the reduction involving electrons, holes, and chemisorbed hydrogen is discussed.
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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 10, pp. 42–46, October, 1976.
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Kharlamov, V.F., Styrov, V.V., Il'in, A.P. et al. Electron-hole mechanism for the decomposition of zinc sulfide in a hydrogen atmosphere. Soviet Physics Journal 19, 1273–1277 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00891193
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