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Evolution of Free Volumes in Polycrystalline BaGa2O4 Ceramics Doped with Eu3+ Ions

Halyna KlymIvan KarbovnykAndriy LuchechkoYuriy KostivViktorija PankratovaAnatoli I. Popov

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CeramicsGeneral Chemical EngineeringFree-volume defects02 engineering and technologydopingceramics01 natural sciencesInorganic ChemistryFragmentationfragmentation0103 physical sciencesceramics; doping; free-volume defects; positron annihilation; agglomeration; fragmentationDopingGeneral Materials Science010302 applied physicsagglomerationCrystallographyAgglomerationPositron annihilationpositron annihilationfree-volume defects021001 nanoscience & nanotechnologyCondensed Matter PhysicsQD901-999:NATURAL SCIENCES [Research Subject Categories]0210 nano-technology

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H.K. and Y.K. would like to thank A. Ingram for assistance in PAL experiments. The authors thank E.A. Kotomin and M. Brik for the many useful discussions. The research was (partly) performed in the Institute of Solid State Physics, University of Latvia ISSP UL. ISSP UL as the Center of Excellence is supported through the Framework Program for European universities Union Horizon 2020, H2020-WIDESPREAD-01–2016–2017-TeamingPhase2 under Grant Agreement No. 739508, CAMART2 project.

10.3390/cryst11121515http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cryst11121515