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Effect of temperature on recombination luminescence and electron tunnelling

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RECOMBINATION luminescence which occurs in alkaline glass after γ irradiation at 77 K, decreases in intensity when the glass is cooled. Between 60 K and 4 K the activation energy is probably about zero. This seems to be direct proof of a tunnelling mechanism.

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  1. Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Academy of Science of the USSR, Leninskii Prospekt 31, Moscow, USSR

    B. G. ERSHOV

  2. Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie des Rayonnements de de l'Université de Paris-Sud, associé au CNRS, 91405, Orsay, France

    F. KIEFFER

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ERSHOV, B., KIEFFER, F. Effect of temperature on recombination luminescence and electron tunnelling. Nature 252, 118–119 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1038/252118a0

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