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In the AgCl microcrystals with adsorbed methylene blue dye molecules, sensitized anti-Stokes luminescence centers formed as a result of a photostimulated low-temperature (77 K) process are observed. The emission is recorded on excitation of the samples by radiation with the flux density 1014−1015 photon cm−2 s−1 in the spectral range 620–750 nm corresponding to optical absorption in the adsorbed dye molecules and adsorbed Ag1, Ag2, and Ag3 clusters. It is shown that the anti-Stokes luminescence centers formed by photo-stimulation present (adsorbed dye molecule)—(silver subnanocluster) hybrid nanostructures, in which the bonding between the components is weak but sufficient to provide the possibility for two-photon interband transitions that occur due to transfer of the electron’s excitation energy from the dye molecule to the silver cluster with subsequent photoionization of the cluster.
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Original Russian Text © M.S. Smirnov, O.V. Ovchinnikov, A.N. Latyshev, A.M. Smirnova, P.V. Novikov, M.A. Efimova, 2009, published in Fizika i Tekhnika Poluprovodnikov, 2009, Vol. 43, No. 7, pp. 884–889.
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Smirnov, M.S., Ovchinnikov, O.V., Latyshev, A.N. et al. Sensitized anti-stokes luminescence centers in AgCl crystals. Semiconductors 43, 852–857 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063782609070057
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