The A-emission of KBr: Tl

M. Roth*, A. Halperin

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Abstract

The line shapes and relative efficiencies of AT and AX emission bands of KBr : Tl have been studied over a wide temperature range (10-500 K). The behavior of AT and AX emissions has been described phenomenologically in terms of the coexistence of two different kinds of minima on the adiabatic potential energy surface of the 3T1u relaxed excited state. The line shape parameters and the A-emission temperature dependence show that T and X minima belong to distortions of different symmetry. A model considering the emission processes from T and X minima separately, in spaces of different distortions, is shown to account well for the experimental results. The emission at very low temperatures (below 50 K) was found to be sensitive to trace impurities.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)227-240
Number of pages14
JournalJournal of Luminescence
Volume20
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - 1979

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