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Ionoluminescence of leucophanite
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Henrik Friis
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Adrian A. Finch
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April 1, 2015
Abstract
The luminescence of three natural samples of leucophanite (ideally, NaCaBeSi2O6F) has been investigated with ion-beam excitation and by electron spin resonance (ESR). A blue luminescence, ascribed to a defect associated with SiO4 or BeO4 tetrahedra, and an orange luminescence, ascribed to an Mn2+ center, dominates the emission. Further luminescence centers in the investigated wavelength range (200.1100 nm) include those related to Gd3+, Dy3+, Tb3+, Sm3+, Eu3+, Tm3+, and Nd3+. In spite of a sheet-like structure, leucophanite is relatively resilient to the ion implantation and β-irradiation, compared with other minerals, but loss of luminescence intensity as a function of implantation show that some permanent defects are formed. No centers change their emission energy as a function of temperature in the investigated interval (40.300 K), but due to crystal-field interaction, a broadening of the Mn2+ emission band is observed with increasing temperature, and with low activator concentration. The variation in activator concentration is clearly seen from a pronounced concentration quenching. ESR data (9.7 and 188 GHz) show that Mn is only present in one crystallographic site and that the REE-richest sample has an additional signal with g ~ 2.003. No new defects could be seen with ESR in a β-irradiated sample.
Received: 2005-11-23
Accepted: 2006-9-21
Published Online: 2015-4-1
Published in Print: 2007-2-1
© 2015 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston
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