Luminescence and luminescence excitation spectra are recorded for surface radiation-induced defects in lithium fluoride at temperatures of 77 and 293 K. The presence of three bands with relatively small intensity differences is a distinctive feature of the excitation spectrum. These bands are found to belong to the same type of defects. The positions of the peaks and the widths of the absorption and luminescence bands for these defects are determined. The luminescence decay time is measured. All the measured characteristics of these surface defects differ from those of previously known defects induced by radiation in the bulk of the crystals. It is found that the luminescence of surface defects in an ensemble of nanocrystals with different orientations is not polarized. The number of anion vacancies in the surface defects is estimated using the polarization measurements. It is shown that radiative scattering distorts the intensity ratios of the luminescence excitation bands located in different spectral regions.
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Translated from Zhurnal Prikladnoi Spektroskopii, Vol. 80, No. 5, pp. 743–748, September–October, 2013.
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Voitovich, A.P., Kalinov, V.S., Martynovich, E.F. et al. Luminescence Properties of Surface Radiation-Induced Defects in Lithium Fluoride. J Appl Spectrosc 80, 731–736 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10812-013-9834-0
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