Abstract
The effect of temperature on the spectral luminescence characteristics of PbWO4:Tb3+ crystals with synchrotron and laser excitation is studied. If PbWO4:Tb3+ is excited by synchrotron radiation with λ = 88 nm at 300 K, a faint recombination luminescence of the impurity terbium is observed against the matrix luminescence. When the temperature is reduced to 8 K, the luminescence intensity of PbWO4:Tb3+ increases by roughly an order of magnitude and the characteristic luminescence of the unactivated crystal is observed. Excitation of PbWO4:Tb3+ by a nitrogen laser at 300 K leads to the appearance of emission from Tb3+ ions. At 90 K, a faint matrix luminescence is observed in addition to the activator emission. The formation of the luminescence excitation spectra for wavelengths of 60–320 nm is analyzed and the nature of the emission bands is discussed.
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