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The processes involved in the excited-state relaxation of hole O 01 centers at nonbridging oxygen atoms in glassy SiO2 were studied using luminescence, optical absorption, and photoelectron emission spectroscopy. An additional nonradiative relaxation channel, in addition to the intracenter quenching of the 1.9-eV luminescence band, was established to become operative at temperatures above 370 K. This effect manifests itself in experiments as a negative deviation of the temperature-dependent luminescence intensity from the well-known Mott law and is identified as thermally activated external quenching with an energy barrier of 0.46 eV. Nonradiative transitions initiate, within the external quenching temperature interval, the migration of excitation energy, followed by the creation of free electrons. In the final stages, this relaxation process becomes manifest in the form of spectral sensitization of electron photoemission, which is excited in the hole O 01 -center absorption band.
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Translated from Fizika Tverdogo Tela, Vol. 44, No. 9, 2002, pp. 1596–1600.
Original Russian Text Copyright © 2002 by Zatsepin, Biryukov, Kortov, Cholakh.
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Zatsepin, A.F., Biryukov, D.Y., Kortov, V.S. et al. Nonradiative relaxation of photoexcited O 01 centers in glassy SiO2 . Phys. Solid State 44, 1671–1675 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1507246
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