Abstract
The luminescence characteristics of M3+: Al2O3 crystals, where M3+ stands for an isoelectronic cation impurity with a filled electron shell, namely, Sc3+, Y3+, or La3+, were studied. The luminescence of excitons bound (BE) to these impurities was detected. The position of the BE energy states at the long-wavelength absorption edge as a function of the M3+ ionic radius was established. The energies of the long-wavelength BE creation threshold and of the maximum of the BE luminescence band were approximated empirically by third-order polynomials of the Toyozawa polynomial type, which describes electron-phonon interaction. The energy and spatial structure of the BE was found to be similar to that of a self-trapped exciton (STE). The BE and STE states are separated by an energy barrier, and energy transfer from the STE to BE is frozen at low temperatures.
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