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Photoluminescence properties of pyrolytic boron nitride

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We report on spectroscopic study of pyrolytic hBN (pBN) by means of time- and energy-resolved photoluminescence methods. A high purity pBN samples (though low crystallinity) allow complementary information about excited states involved into the luminescence process. We affirm our recent conclusions about the impurity-related nature of most of fluorescence bands in microcrystalline hBN. In addition, a broad band centred at 3.7 eV previously not considered because of its superposition with an intense structured impurity emission is attributed to the radiative recombination of deep DAPs.

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This work has been supported by the IHP-Contract HPRI-CT-1999-00040 of the European Commission. The authors are grateful to G. Stryganyuk for assistance in conducting experiments at SUPERLUMI station and to V. Solozhenko for helpful discussions and the kindly providing pyrolytic boron nitride samples.

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  1. Laboratoire de Physique des Lasers-LPL, CNRS UMR 7538, Institut Galilée, Université Paris 13, 93430, Villetaneuse, France

    Luc Museur

  2. Laboratoire d’Ingénierie des Matériaux et des Hautes Pressions-LIMHP, CNRS, Institut Galilée, Université Paris 13, 93430, Villetaneuse, France

    Andrei Kanaev

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Museur, L., Kanaev, A. Photoluminescence properties of pyrolytic boron nitride. J Mater Sci 44, 2560–2565 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-009-3334-x

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