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Persistent phosphor has emerged as a promising candidate for information storage due to the rapid accessibility and low-energy requirements. However, the low storage capacity has limited its practical application. Herein, we skillfully…
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Understanding the physical mechanisms behind thermal effects in phosphors is crucial for white light-emitting diodes (WLEDs) applications, as thermal quenching of their photoluminescence might render them useless. The two chemically close…
Metastable states form by charge (electron and hole) capture in defects in a solid. They play an important role in dosimetry, information storage, and many medical and industrial applications of photonics. Despite many decades of research,…
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Indium phosphide-based quantum dots (QDs) are a potential material for designing optoelectronic devices, owing their adjustable spectral parameters over the entire visible range, as well as their high biocompatibility and environmental…
We report on reaching sub-Doppler temperatures of $^{40}$K in a single-chamber setup using a dispenser-based potassium source with natural (0.012$\%$ of $^{40}$K) isotopic composition. With gray molasses cooling on the $D_1$-line following…
Currently,lanthanide ions doped luminescence materials applying as optical thermometers have arose much concern. Basing on the different responses of two emissions to temperature, the fluorescence intensity ratio (FIR) technique can be…
Recent work with laser-cooled molecules in attractive optical traps has shown that the differential AC Stark shifts arising from the trap light itself can become problematic, limiting collisional shielding efficiencies, rotational coherence…
Understanding the dynamics of photoexcited carriers is essential for advancing photoelectronic device design. Photon absorption generates electron-hole pairs, and subsequent scatterings can induce ultrafast thermalization within a…
Experimental evidence indicating the beneficial impact of a phosphorous diffusion gettering (PDG) in the reduction of trapping centers is shown, as observed by means of inductively coupled photoconductance (PC) decay and lifetime…
Most materials recently developed for room temperature phosphorescence (RTP) lack of practical relevance due to their inconvenient crystalline morphology. Using amorphous material systems instead, programmable luminescent tags (PLTs) based…
The dynamic interplay between light and electric field control of charge states lies at the heart of developing multifunctional optoelectronic devices. While persistent photoconductivity (PPC) and gate-voltage (VG)-induced electron trapping…
We report the laser cooling and trapping of neutral potassium on an open transition. Fermionic 40K is captured using a magneto-optical trap (MOT) on the closed 4S-4P transition at 767 nm and then transferred, with unit efficiency, to a MOT…
Electron and hole trapping was studied in the Ce3+ and Pr3+ doped Lu2Si2O7 scintillation single crystals (LPS:Ce and LPS:Pr) by Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR). Detailed EPR measurements of the X-ray irradiated LPS crystals revealed…
In the current work, a novel class of (Ca0.9Si0.1)Al2O6:Eu2+,Nd3+ long persistent phosphor was synthesized using high-temperature (1000-1500oC) solid-state reaction method. Further, the phosphor material was formulated into a phosphorescent…
Understanding carrier dynamics in photoexcited metal-halide perovskites is key for optoelectronic devices such as solar cells (low carrier densities) and lasers (high carrier densities). Trapping processes at low carrier densities and…
The luminescence of fifteen representative Eu$^{2+}$-doped phosphors used for white-LED and scintillation applications is studied through a Constrained Density Functional Theory. Transition energies and Stokes shift are deduced from…
The femtosecond transinet optical spectroscopy is employed to study the relaxation dynamics of the equilibrium and hidden metastable charge-density-wave states in single crystals of 1$T$-TaS$_{2-x}$Se$_{x}$ as a function of the Se doping…