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International Conference on Luminescence - 1984

Self Trapping of Excitons at the Surface of Rare Gas Solids and its Manifestation in Luminescence and Desorption

F. Coletti, J.M. Debever

Published Jan 1, 1984• 0 citations

Abstract

This paper presents the first results on a correlation between the luminescence of excitons self-trapped at the surface of solid argon and desorption. Recently, Jennison and Emin showed that localisation of electronic excitation at the surface of the crystal is an essential condition, and that especially self-trapping of excitons can lead to desorption of neutral atoms1. In the case of solid argon, self-trapping of excitons at the surface has been proved to exist2. It leads to characteristic luninescence bands which were also measured with electron excitation techniques3. Two of them exactly coincide with the 3P1 and 1P1 emission of isolated argon atoms and were not understood up to now. In the course of this work it turned out that they are emitted by desorbing neutral atoms.

DOI: 10.1364/icol.1984.mc1

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