Abstract
Spectral and kinetic characteristics of the luminescence and luminescence excitation spectra of polycrystalline SrB4O7:Pr (1%) and SrB6O10:Pr (1%) samples are studied at 150–170 K. The samples show an intense luminescence band in the vicinity of 405 nm (1 S 0→1 I 6 transitions of Pr3+) and shorter wavelength bands also assigned to transitions from the 1 S 0 level. The main luminescence decay constant is ∼2×10−7 s. The excitation spectra of the 1 S 0 luminescence in these crystals are significantly different. The SrB4O7:Pr crystal shows three well-resolved bands at 6.14, 6.55, and 6.91 eV in the region of the 4f 2→4f 15d transitions and a complex structure in the region of interband transitions (7.1–20 eV), whereas the SrB6O10:Pr crystal shows a weakly structured band at 6.31 eV and no excitation in the region of the interband transitions. The physical mechanisms that may be responsible for the observed features of the spectra are discussed.
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