Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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9845853 | Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment | 2005 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
The decay kinetics of the 2.88Â eV emission of pure and Bi-doped CaWO4 crystals has been studied in the temperature region of 4.2-300Â K. The decay components connected with the radiative transitions from the triplet excited states of regular WO42â oxyanionic complexes and WO42â complexes perturbed by Bi3+ ions (WO42â(Bi3+) centres) have been identified. It is shown that WO4(Bi3+) centres can be excited directly above the edge of the fundamental absorption of CaWO4, or due to the energy transfer from the metastable state of a Bi3+ ion at the excitation in the Bi3+ absorption band at 4.4Â eV. At temperatures T>170Â K, the excited state of the WO42â(Bi3+) centre is thermally ionised, giving rise to phosphorescence in the blue spectral region. These processes are compared with those known for excitons in PbWO4 crystals.
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Authors
V. Nagirnyi, A. Kotlov, L. Jönsson, M. Kirm, A. Lushchik,