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AUTHOR
Chu-an Li
Luminescence properties of LiGaO2 crystal
The study was supported by the Latvia-Lithuania-Taiwan research project “Nonpolar ZnO thin films: growth-related structural and optical properties” (Latvia: LV-LT-TW/2016/5 , Lithuania: TAP LLT 02/2014 , Taiwan: MOST 103-2923-M-110-001-MY3 ).
Spectral and kinetic characteristics of pyroelectric luminescence in LiGaO2
Abstract Pyroelectric luminescence was observed in noncentrosymmetrical crystal LiGaO2 with the direct band gap around 6 eV. For the first time spectral and kinetic characteristics of pyroelectric luminescence were obtained. The temporal structure of the PEL signal was determined as a sequence of pulses with duration not longer than several nanoseconds. This allowed proposing of the luminescence mechanism: in vacuum conditions in LiGaO2 crystal pyroelectric luminescence occurs inside the sample due to radiative recombination of electrons with the positively charged intrinsic luminescence centres.