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Soft X-ray (XUV) excitation did make it possible to avoid the predominant role of the surface effects in luminescence of NiO and revealed a bulk luminescence with a puzzling well isolated doublet of very narrow lines with close energies near 3.3 eV which is assigned to recombination transitions in self-trapped d-d charge transfer (CT) excitons formed by coupled Jahn-Teller Ni+ and Ni3+ centers. The conclusion is supported both by a comparative analysis of the CT luminescence spectra for NiO and solid solutions Ni x Zn1 − x O, and by a comprehensive cluster model assignment of different p-d and d-d CT transitions, their relaxation channels. To the best of our knowledge, it is the first observation of the luminescence due to self-trapped d-d CT excitons.
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Sokolov, V.I., Pustovarov, V.A., Churmanov, V.N. et al. Self-trapping of the d-d charge transfer exciton in bulk NiO evidenced by X-ray excited luminescence. Jetp Lett. 95, 528–533 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0021364012100116
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