Influence of different annealing conditions on the luminescent properties of Li2B4O7:Mn single crystals

The influence of reducing annealing and repeated oxidizing annealing of the Li2B4O7:Mn single crystals on their thermostimulated luminescence (TSL) and X-ray luminescence (XL) has been studied. Because of the oxygen vacancies formation and the dopant ions reduction, the reducing annealing results in a drastic decrease of the luminescence intensity along with the simultaneous shift of a part of the maxima and redistribution of the peak intensities. The repeated annealing in the oxidizing environment leads only to the partial reduction of the luminescent properties of the Li2B4O7:Mn crystals.