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In KTaO3:Er crystals, we observed a temperature shift, unusual for rare earth impurities, for narrow zero-phonon luminescence lines, due to the 4S3/2 → 4I13/2, 4F9/2 → 4I15/2, and 4S3/2 → 4I15/2 transitions in Er3+ impurity ions. The magnitude of the shifts turned out to be comparable with the large shifts of the R lines of the Cr3+ luminescence in SrTiO3:Cr and KTaO3:Cr crystals, that is, substantially larger than that for the three-charged rare earth ions usually observed in the f–f luminescence spectra in ionic crystals.
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V.A. Trepakov acknowledges the support of the Program of the Russian Academy of Sciences “Condensed Matter Physics and Materials of a New Generation” and is grateful to R. Yusupov and B. Malkin for useful discussions.
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This work was partially supported by the Operational Program “Research, Development and Education” of the European Structural and Investment Funds and the Czech Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (Project SOLID21 (CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16_019/0000760) and Center of Advanced Applied Sciences (CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16_019/0000778)).
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Trepakov, V.A., Skvortsov, A.P., Potůček, Z. et al. Temperature Shift of the Zero-Phonon f–f Lines of Er3+ Luminescence in Quantum Paraelectric KTaO3. Phys. Solid State 62, 912–918 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063783420050303
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