M. L. Crespillo, J. T. Graham, F. Agulló-López, et al. The blue emission at 2.8 eV in strontium titanate: evidence for a radiative transition of self-trapped excitons from unbound states[J]. Materials Research Letters, 2019, 7(7): 298-303.
DOI:
M. L. Crespillo, J. T. Graham, F. Agulló-López, et al. The blue emission at 2.8 eV in strontium titanate: evidence for a radiative transition of self-trapped excitons from unbound states[J]. Materials Research Letters, 2019, 7(7): 298-303.DOI: 10.1080/21663831.2019.1604444.
The blue emission at 2.8 eV in strontium titanate: evidence for a radiative transition of self-trapped excitons from unbound states
has been investigated as a function of irradiation fluence
electronic excitation density
and temperature using a range of ion energies and masses. The emission clearly does not show correlation with the concentration of vacancies generated by irradiation but is greatly enhanced under heavy-ion irradiation. The intensity ratio of the 2.8 and 2.5 eV bands is independent of fluence at all temperatures
but it increases with excitation rate. The 2.8 eV emission is proposed to correspond to a transition from conduction band states to the ground state level of the self-trapped exciton center.