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JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS
Volume 107, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.3392802
Keywords
ceramics; electron traps; ENDOR; hole traps; hyperfine interactions; impurity states; lithium compounds; paramagnetic resonance; vacancies (crystal); X-ray effects
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- Defense Threat Reduction Agency [HDTRA1-07-1-0008, BRBAA08-I-2-0128]
- National Science Foundation [DMR-0804352]
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Electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) and electron-nuclear double resonance (ENDOR) are used to identify and characterize electrons trapped by oxygen vacancies and holes trapped by lithium vacancies in lithium tetraborate (Li2B4O7) crystals. Our study includes a crystal with the natural abundances of B-10 and B-11 and a crystal highly enriched with B-10. The as-grown crystals contain isolated oxygen vacancies, lithium vacancies, and copper impurities, all in nonparamagnetic charge states. During an irradiation at 77 K with 60 kV x-rays, doubly ionized oxygen vacancies trap electrons while singly ionized lithium vacancies and monovalent copper impurities trap holes. The vacancies return to their preirradiation charge states when the temperature of the sample is increased to approximately 90 K. Hyperfine interactions with B-10 and B-11 nuclei, observed between 13 and 40 K in the radiation-induced EPR and ENDOR spectra, provide models for the two vacancy-related defects. The electron trapped by an oxygen vacancy is localized primarily on only one of the two neighboring boron ions while the hole stabilized by a lithium vacancy is localized on a neighboring oxygen ion with nearly equal interactions with the two boron ions adjacent to the oxygen ion. (C) 2010 American Institute of Physics. [doi: 10.1063/1.3392802]
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