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- Basavaraju, N., et al.
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Controlling disorder in the ZnGa2O4:Cr3+ persistent phosphor by Mg2+ substitution
- 2017
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Ingår i: Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. - : Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). - 1463-9084 .- 1463-9076. ; 19:2, s. 1369-1377
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We have studied in this work the effect of increasing structural disorder on the persistent luminescence of a Cr3+ doped zinc gallate spinel. This disorder was introduced by progressive substitution of Zn2+ by Mg2+ ions, and was studied by photoluminescence, X-ray diffraction, extended X-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS), X-ray absorption near edge structure (XANES) and electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy. It was found that increasing the Mg/Zn substitution decreases the number of Cr3+ in undistorted sites and increases the number of Cr3+ with neighbouring antisite defects and with neighbouring Cr3+ ions (referred to as Cr clusters), which in turn decreases the intensity of persistent luminescence. Both XANES and EPR spectra could be simulated by a linear combination of Cr3+ spectra with three types of Cr3+ environments. The increasing disorder was found to be correlated with a decrease of the average Cr-O bond length and a decrease of crystal field strength experienced by Cr3+ ions.
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- Dan, Tinku, et al.
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Local structural evolution in the anionic solid solution ZnSexS1-x
- 2021
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Ingår i: Physical Review B. - : American Physical Society. - 2469-9950 .- 2469-9969. ; 104:18
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The century-old Vegard's law has been remarkably accurate in describing the evolution of the lattice parameters of almost all solid solutions. Contractions or expansions of lattice parameters of such systems depend on the size of the guest atom being smaller or larger than the host atom it replaces to form the solid solution. This has given rise to the concept of "chemical pressure" in analogy to the physical pressure. We have investigated using EXAFS the evolution of the local structure in terms of atom-pair distances extending up to the third-nearest neighbors in the family of compounds, ZnSexS1-x as an example of an anionic solid solution, in contrast to all previous studies focusing on cationic solid solutions. Our results establish several common features between these two types of solid solutions, while strongly suggesting that the concept of a chemical pressure is inaccurate and misleading. Most interestingly, we also find a qualitative difference between the cationic solid solutions, reported earlier, and the anionic solid solution.
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