Skip to main content
Article
Zeeman Anisotropy Fluorescence Spectroscopy, Characteristic Radiative Lifetimes, and Novel Site Symmetries in KCl: Sm 2+
Physical Review B
  • F. K. Fong
  • M. N. Sundberg
  • Richard H. Heist, Fairfield University
  • C R. Chilver
Document Type
Article
Article Version
Publisher's PDF
Publication Date
1-1-1971
Disciplines
Abstract

By means of Zeeman anisotropy fluorescence (ZAF) and its field dependence (up to 55.8 kG), the authors have investigated the 4.2 K narrow-line fluorescence of KCl:Sm2+ and identified some hitherto unreported Sm2+ sites. The strong no-field line at 7693.5 Å (5D0→7F3) and a very weak no-field line at 8742.8 Å (5D0→7F5) are shown to be of C3v symmetry origin. The 24.5-kG ZAF pattern observed in the 7696-7700-Å (5D0→7F3) region has been identified to originate from a type-II Cs site. The 26.5-kG ZAF patterns of the C3v no-field line at 7693.5 Å and the type-I Cs no-field line at 7694.5 Å overlap in the 7693-7695.3-Å region, and are elucidated through the field dependence of their Zeeman components. Characteristic radiative lifetimes of the 5D0 level in several Sm2+ symmetry types have been determined from dominant transitions to the 7FJ (J<~4) levels. There are two distinct C4v sites: one with a lifetime of 9.5 msec, and the other 11.2 msec. C2v and type-I Cs sites have lifetimes of 10.5 and 10.8 msec, respectively, which are indistinguishable within the experimental error. The role of O2− compensation of Sm2+ in addition to K+ vacancy compensation in KCl is discussed in terms of these findings.

Comments

©1971 American Physical Society

The final publisher PDF has been archived here with permission from the copyright holder.

https://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevB.3.50

Published Citation
Fong, F. K., Sundberg, M. N., Heist, R. H., & Chilver, C. R. (1971). Zeeman Anisotropy Fluorescence Spectroscopy, Characteristic Radiative Lifetimes, and Novel Site Symmetries in KCl: Sm 2+. Physical Review B, 3(1), 50. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.3.50.
DOI
10.1103/PhysRevB.3.50
None
Peer Reviewed
Citation Information
F. K. Fong, M. N. Sundberg, Richard H. Heist and C R. Chilver. "Zeeman Anisotropy Fluorescence Spectroscopy, Characteristic Radiative Lifetimes, and Novel Site Symmetries in KCl: Sm 2+" Physical Review B Vol. 3 Iss. 1 (1971)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/richard-heist/19/