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PHYSICS LETTERS A
Volume 377, Issue 43, Pages 3170-3178Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physleta.2013.09.025
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Activated crystals; Multiphonon bands; Luminescence; Phosphors; Luminescence
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- European Union through the European Regional Development Fund (Centre of Excellence Mesosystems: Theory and Applications) [TK114]
- Internationalisation Programme DoRa
- Israel Science Foundation, ISF [168/09]
- Supreme Council for Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Moldova [11.817.05.03A]
- Mobilitas ESF program [MTT83]
- Estonian Research Council - Institutional Research Funding [IUT02-26]
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A stoichiometric powder composed of nanosized grains of SrAl2O4:Eu2+ was synthesized by combustion method at 500 degrees C with the subsequent calcination at 1000 degrees C. The zero-phonon line position, parameter of the Stokes shift, heat release factor and effective phonon energy were studied experimentally and analyzed in the framework of the multimode Pekar-Huang-Rhys model. Experimental data show that the optical 4f-5d transitions in Eu2+ ion exhibit a broad asymmetric electron-vibrational bands with a pronounced structure near the maxima. The form-function of the absorption and luminescence bands are theoretically analyzed in the framework of the model of the linear electron-vibrational interaction assuming strong coupling with the local vibration (estimated Pekar-Huang-Rhys parameter a = 2S = 10 and frequency (h) over bar omega = 509 cm(-1)) and relatively weak interaction with the crystal phonons. The last results in an effective temperature dependent broadening of the discrete lines corresponding to the local vibrations and to a specific shape of the whole phonon assisted band (multimode Pekarian). Providing specific interrelation between the key parameters the calculated absorption and luminescence bands exhibit peculiar temperature dependent structured peaks in a qualitative agreement with the experimental data. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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