- Title
- Spectral study of radioluminescence in carbon-doped aluminium oxide
- Creator
- Nyirenda, Angel N
- Creator
- Chithambo, Makaiko L
- Date Issued
- 2018
- Date
- 2018
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/110067
- Identifier
- vital:33220
- Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.radmeas.2018.06.026
- Description
- The spectral emission study of the radioluminescence (RL) measured from carbon-doped aluminium oxide (α-Al2O3:C) at various temperatures between 30 and 300∘C is reported. The energy-resolved RL emission spectra measured at room temperature show seven gaussian emission bands centred at 1.75, 1.79, 1.85, 2.22, 2.96, 3.72 and 4.44 eV. The 2.96-eV emission, associated with F-centres, is the primary RL emission whereas the narrow (R-line) emission centred at 1.79 eV, associated with Cr3+ impurity ions, is the most intense secondary emission. However, the intensity of 1.79-eV emission decreases with repeated RL measurements. The central emission energy for F-centres is constant throughout the temperature range of investigation. The full width at half maximum (FWHM) for the F-centre emission band increases with temperature whereas the F-centre peak intensity exhibits thermal quenching behaviour at temperatures above 160∘C. On the other hand, the emission energy for the R-line emission of Cr3+ is constant for temperatures between 30 and 160∘C, whereas its peak intensity generally decreases with temperature. F-centres experience strong-coupling in their crystallographic sites with estimated electron-lattice coupling parameters of S = 5.0 ± 0.9, Ep = 0.079 ± 0.008 eV and ν = 1.91 × 1013 Hz where S, Ep and ν are the Huang-Rhys factor, the phonon energy and the phonon frequency, respectively. The RL spectra recorded while ramping the temperature of a sample at a constant rate have been compared against conventional TL spectra.
- Format
- 7 pages
- Format
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Radiation Measurements
- Relation
- Nyirenda, A.N. and Chithambo, M.L., 2018. Spectral study of radioluminescence in carbon-doped aluminium oxide. Radiation Measurements, 120, pp.89-95.
- Relation
- Radiation Measurements volume 120 89 95 December 2018 1350-4487
- Rights
- Elsevier
- Rights
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