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Photoluminescence band at 4.4 eV in oxygen-deficient silica: temperature effects
R Boscaino1, M Cannas, F M Gelardi
1INFM, Unità di Palermo and Istituto di Fisica dell'Università, Via Archirafi 36, I-90123 Palermo, Italy.
Abstract:
We report experimental results on the spectral properties and time behaviour of the 4.4 eV photoluminescence (PL) band in oxygen-deficient silica [Formula: see text]. Our measurements, performed both at T = 300 K and T = 10 K, show that at room temperature the PL features are independent of the particular excitation energy (5.0 eV, 6.8 eV and 7.6 eV) whereas at low temperature, upon excitation at 7.6 eV, the decay of the PL emission is faster than for lower excitation energies. This shortening of the PL lifetime is consistent with previously reported data, which were explained by hypothesizing an interconversion mechanism between two structural configurations of the same oxygen defect. Nevertheless, our results do not support the proposed mechanism and we tentatively suggest a different interpretation of the experimental data.
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