The optical creation and recombination assembly of near-sodium electron excitations in KCl-Na crystal

Abstract

The radiative relaxations of self-trapped excitons with a maximum at 2.8 eV in the sodium field are experimentally demonstrated in KCl-Na crystal – at direct optical creation of a near-sodium exciton with a photon energy of  7.62 eV, at electron-hole recombination in the process of  X-ray excitation in the temperature range from 150 K to 300 K , as well as electron-hole recombination at optical stimulation in F^/ - centers spectrum region (1.5 eV) at 90 K in crystal, pre-irradiated by X. The increase in the radiation intensity at 2.8 eV of KCl-Na crystal at X-ray excitation in the temperature range from 150 K to 300 K, when all exciton-like radiation is quenched, is interpreted by increasing the free path of the unrelaxed hole from 60 а to 600 а, where a is the lattice constant. Thus, in KCl-Na crystal, unique possibilities of self-trapped electronic excitation creation in the field of a light sodium ion are experimentally realized by three mechanisms – exciton, hole-electron recombination, and electron-hole recombination, the radiative relaxation of which ends by luminescence with a maximum at 2.8 eV.