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JOURNAL OF LUMINESCENCE
Volume 190, Issue -, Pages 451-456Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jlumin.2017.06.001
Keywords
Band gap; Cathode luminescence (CL); Phase formation; Photoluminescence (PL); Polymorphism; Pyrosilicates; Tauc-plot
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This work concerns the synthesis, effect of fluxes on the formation of single phase materials, and spectroscopic characterization of rare earth pyrosilicates according to Ln(2)Si(2)O(7) (with Ln = La, Lu, Y). It turned out that by the support of LiF as a flux it is possible to obtain a single phase of the polymorph Lu2Si2O7, La2Si2O7, and Y1,9La0,1Si2O7 compositions. Tauc-plots of the VUV reflection spectra of these compounds were used to derive the optical band gaps, which are in the range between 6.2 and 7.1 eV. The single phase samples show strong photoluminescence in the UV and visible range upon excitation by VUV radiation or by electron bombardment. PL spectra have been measured by 160 nm excitation and cathode luminescence (CL) spectra have been recorded at electron beam energies between 2 and 20 key, respectively. All measurements reveal that the pyrosilicates show strong defect luminescence, whereby the observed broad emission bands are assigned to different defect types.
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