Abstract
Thermal quenching of 5d-4f luminescence from Nd3+, Er3+ and Tm3+ ions doped into KYF4 crystals has been investigated in the temperature range up to ∼750 K where this luminescence is completely quenched. The obtained temperatures of thermal quenching (Tq) are ∼270, 495, 450 K for Nd3+, Er3+, Tm3+, respectively. At high temperatures, thermal quenching of 5d-4f luminescence from Nd3+ and Er3+ is accompanied by the appearance of 4f-4f luminescence from the lower-energy 4f levels. It has been shown that the dominating mechanism of thermal quenching for Nd3+ and Er3+ ions is thermally stimulated non-radiative transitions (intersystem crossing) from the 5d states to lower-energy 4f levels, namely 2G(2)9/2 and 2F(2)7/2, respectively, whereas for the Tm3+ ion, thermally stimulated ionization of 5d electrons to the conduction band states is responsible for thermal quenching of 5d-4f luminescence. The energy gap between the lowest Tm3+ 5d level and the bottom of the KYF4 conduction band has been estimated to be 0.66 eV.
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