Optical excitation of trapped charges in quartz, potassium feldspars and mixed silicates: The dependence on photon energy

Optical excitation of trapped charges has been studied by stimulating them with photons of energies from 1.8 to 2.7 eV and measuring the resulting luminescence at higher photon energies. The samples studied were quartz, potassium feldspar and fine-grained silicate extracts from natural sediments. The initial luminescence intensity and its decay as the traps are emptied have been used to gain information about the traps contributing to the emission. For the quartz studied the data are well explained by excitation from a single trap. The excitation spectra for potassium feldspars and mixed silicates show evidence of two different traps, the deepest of which is seen to give rise to the most luminescence. Its optical trap-depth may be more than 2.4 eV while the depth of the shallow trap appears to be about 2.1 eV. In nature, the deeper trap will probably not be well bleached during deposition in all aqueous environments, and for optical dating of water-laid sediments selective sampling of the shallow trap photons with energies less than 2.3 eV for stimulation may prove beneficial.     

Photorefractive effect in sillenite crystals with shallow traps in a sign-alternating electric field

The results of a theoretical analysis of the photorefractive response in crystals with shallow traps to in a sign-alternating, square-wave electric field are presented. The numerical analysis method developed imposes no restrictions on the frequency of the external field and the period of the photorefractive grating. The parameters characterizing deep donor and shallow trap centers are estimated on the basis of investigations of two-beam interaction in a Bi₁₂SiO₂₀:Cd crystal with the application of a sign-alternating, square-wave electric field. Fiz. Tverd. Tela (St. Petersburg) 40, 2037–2043 (November 1998)     

Superior real-time holographic storage properties in doped potassium sodium strontium barium niobate crystal

We demonstrate superior holographic storage performance in a cobalt doped potassium sodium strontium barium niobate (Co:KNSBN) crystal that possesses a fast response time of 1.4 ms, a large photorefractive sensitivity of 13 x 10(-3) cm(3) J(-1) under a total writing intensity of 1 W/cm(2) , and high spatial resolution of 45 line pairs/mm. Reconstructed images with high fidelity have been obtained in real-time holographic storage. The dynamic properties of the index grating, the dependence of response time on writing intensity, and the dark decay of diffraction signal with increased writing intensity indicate that two species and shallow traps exist in Co:KNSBN crystal.     

Strom-Spannungsabhängigkeit bei der Photoleitung in Isolatoren mit Störstellen und nachlieferndem Kontakt

The total current (photocurrent plus dark current) through an insulator with one ohmic contact is obtained. The insulator contains a single, discrete trap level and in addition fixed holes as recombination centers. From the total current, the photocurrent-voltage characteristic is derived. For shallow traps only, the photocurrent after an ohmic range, continuously turns into saturation. For deep traps only, however, below the threshold voltage for the onset of the space-charge-limited dark current, the photocurrent-voltage characteristic is considerably influenced by the rate of excitation by light. The superlinear rise of the photocurrent with voltage (at low rates of excitation) changes into a linear and furthermore into a sublinear rise with increasing rate of excitation. Near the threshold voltage the photocurrent passes through a maximum at very low rates of excitation because the deep traps are filled with electrons from the ohmic contact. The corresponding maximum gain may be by orders of magnitude greater than the saturation gain.     

On luminescence stimulated from deep traps using thermally-assisted time-resolved optical stimulation in α-Al2O3:C

We report a study of charge transfer mechanisms of electrons stimulated optically from very deep traps, also known as donor traps, in α-Al₂O₃:C. The investigations were carried out using thermally-assisted time-resolved optical stimulation, thermoluminescence and by way of residual thermoluminescence from the main electron trap. When the charges are optically stimulated from the deep traps, they are redistributed via the conduction band to the main electron trap and the shallow trap from where they are optically or thermally released for recombination at luminescence centres. The luminescence is strongly quenched at high measurement temperature as evident by very short luminescence lifetimes at these temperatures. The main peak due to residual thermoluminescence is located at a higher temperature than the conventional main peak.     

All-Optical Photorefractive Effect in Carbazole-Based Azo-Side Group Polymer

We observe the photorefractivity without bias voltage or prepoling in a bifunctional photorefractive polymer. The maximum two-beam coupling gain is measured to be 126cm^-1 at zero bias voltage. The sample is considered to be poled by the photoinduced longitudinal electric field, which is formed due to the light intensity gradient along the light path. The expression of the electric field was deduced. The energy transfer direction between two writing beams and light intensity dependence of the two-beam coupling gain coefficient is predicted to be consistent with the experimental results. Furthermore, the dependence of the two-beam coupling gain coefficient on external applied electrical field is measured and this experiment verifies the existence of the photoinduced longitudinal electric field.     

低密度聚乙烯热压成型过程中的空间电荷

借助开路热刺激放电(TSD)电流及原位实时电荷TSD和电荷等温衰减测量，研究了低密度聚乙烯(LDPE)在热压成型过程中所产生的空间电荷特性.结果表明具有良好室温稳定性的成型电荷被束缚在两类陷阱能级中：浅阱和深阱，其陷阱中心深度分别约为0.92eV和1.31eV.初步的分析进一步表明了它们应该分别位于试样的表层和体内，为近表面陷阱和体陷阱. 关键词： 低密度聚乙烯(LDPE) 热压成型 空间电荷 热刺激放电(TSD)     

Ce:BaTiO3晶体中两个深陷阱能级引起的光折变光栅暗衰减特性

对Ce:BaTiO3晶体中光折变光栅的暗衰减特性进行了实验研究，观测到了晶体禁带中的Fe离子和Ce离子两个深陷阱能级同时参与了光折变过程。在单深能级模型和浅－深能级模型的基础上，提出了简化的双深能级模型，并根据该模型定量地分析了Fe离子和Ce离子每个深陷阱能级在不同光栅波矢、不同光栅写入光强时对总空间电场以及光折变光栅的贡献。     

A method for correlating charge traps of polypropylene to its morphology

A method for differentiating charge traps in amorphous parts from those in crystalline parts of crystalline polymers was proposed and applied it to polypropylene (PP) charge traps. The proposed method is combined use of two techniques: organic solvent vapor-induced charge decay (OSVICD) and partial neutralization (PN), slight recharging with the counter corona charges. From thermally stimulated current (TSC) spectra of OSVICD- and PN-treated PP, the shallow and deep charge traps were correlated to the trap sites existing in the amorphous and crystalline regions of PP, respectively. From TSC spectra of PN-treated PP, it was found that in the surface region the ratio of charges existed in the deep traps to those in the shallow ones was about 87% while in the bulk region it was 48%. This fact is consistent with crystalline-rich surface nature of the sample films, which was revealed by the usual transmission and ATR infrared spectroscopic analyses.     

掺杂含量对环氧纳米复合电介质陷阱与空间电荷的影响

环氧纳米复合电介质具有抑制空间电荷积聚、高电阻率、高击穿强度等优异性能,对直流电力设备的发展具有重要的作用.但纳米粒子含量对纳米复合电介质陷阱、电导率和空间电荷的影响机理尚不清楚.本文在纳米复合电介质交互区结构模型的基础上提出了计算交互区浅陷阱和深陷阱密度的方法,得到了浅陷阱和深陷阱密度随纳米粒子含量的变化关系.随着纳米粒子含量的增加,浅陷阱密度逐渐增大,深陷阱先增加然后由于交互区重叠的影响而逐渐减少.研究了纳米粒子含量对浅陷阱控制载流子迁移率的影响,发现随着纳米粒子的增多,浅陷阱大幅增多,浅陷阱之间的平均间距迅速减小,导致载流子更容易在浅陷阱间跳跃迁移,浅陷阱控制载流子迁移率增大.建立了纳米复合电介质的电荷输运模型,采用电荷输运模型计算研究了环氧/二氧化钛纳米复合电介质的空间电荷分布、电场分布和电导率特性.发现在纳米粒子添加量较小时,交互区的深陷阱对电导的影响起主导作用;纳米粒子添加量进一步增加,浅陷阱对电导的影响将起到主要作用.     

Crystal diffraction grating in LiNbO3:Fe derived from interferometric volume holography

A 90° two-beam coupling configuration was used to store an image of an extended object in a 0.032 %wt iron-doped LiNbO₃ crystal. A volume hologram was thus generated, via the photorefractive effect, within the microstructure of the crystal. The time evolution of partial spatial erasure of the hologram under illumination was studied by capturing its reconstructed image on a digital camera and performing a two-dimensional inverse Fourier transform. This produced the refractive index grating created through interference of object and reference beams. The nature, intensity distribution and dimensions of the diffraction grating were derived in order to throw light upon the movement and mechanisms of charges, which create the index grating.     

Dynamic study of the gain in two beam coupling in photorefractive materials

Wave equations describing the non-linear two-beam coupling have been solved and expressions for the gain of the two beams in the photorefractive crystals have been derived. In case of the degenerate two-beam coupling, the gain depends upon the crystal thickness, coupling coefficient, absorption coefficient and the input intensity ratio. The effect of these parameters on the gain has been studied in details. In case of non-degenerate two-beam coupling the gain not only depends upon crystal thickness, coupling coefficient, absorption coefficient and the input intensity ratio but also on the response time of the photorefractive medium. This response time is the function of concentration ratio. The influence of oscillation frequency shift, concentration ratio on the gain for the non-degenerate two-beam coupling has also been studied.     

Untersuchungen über Elektronenhaftstellen in ZnS-Phosphoren

Glow curves of different ZnS phosphors were measured and analysed in the temperature region from 4.2 °K to 500 °K. It was attempted to clarify the origin of the glowpeaks observed above 77.4 °K and to attribute them to structural defects in the ZnS lattice. In glow curves started at 4.2 °K a strong dependence of the trap distribution on the method of preparation of phosphors was observed. In particular a ZnS(Cu) phosphor containing oxygen shows a broad continuum of shallow traps between 4.2 °K and 150 °K. In a ZnS(Cu, Ga) phosphor free of oxygen the trap density of the continuum of shallow traps is very small. Moreover this phosphor shows a sharp glowpeak at about 60 °K. The afterglow at the excitation temperatures of 4.2 °K and 77.4 °K was also studied. It is concluded that the rapid amptying of shallow and, to a lesser extent, of deep traps should be due to a tunneling process leading to luminous recombination of the trapped electrons with the activator levels.     

Light-induced absorption of cerium-doped lead barium niobate crystals

Tetragonal lead barium niobate (Pb(1-x)Ba(x)Nb(2)O(6);1-x<0.63) crystals are promising photorefractive materials for applications such as holographic data storage. Measurements of light-induced absorption in Ce-doped lead barium niobate (Pb(0.5)Ba(0.5) Nb(2)O(6)) were performed. The induced absorption that was due to the presence of shallow traps was as large as 0.3cm(-1) at 633 nm and exhibited saturation behavior at green-pump intensity greater than 2W/cm(2) . The temporal profile of the dark decay was a double exponential, and the activation energies of the slow- and the fast-decaying components were determined to be 0.16 and 0.3 eV, respectively.     

The impurity-induced luminescence of RbMnF3

The impurity-induced luminescence of RbMnF₃ has been studied in the temperature range, 4–120 K. Multimagnon sidebands of impurity-induced Mn²⁺ emission lines have been detected spanning the spectral range, 5515–5960 Å. The broad emission bands, which peak at 5750 Å and 6440 Å, have been attributed to phonon-assisted transitions from two impurity-induced Mn²⁺ traps of different depths. Pulsed luminescence measurements indicate that the quenching of the shallow trap emission is by a thermal activation to the E1 exciton level whereas the quenching of the deeper trap emission is by a multiple phonon decay. The coupling between Mn²⁺ ions is strong enough to support a detectable transfer of excitation between these two traps.The results of this research also include the observation in absorption of the E1 exciton line and its 1-magnon and possible 2-magnon sidebands.     

感绿光谱增感染料在氯化银微晶表面的电子陷阱效应

光谱增感技术可使卤化银感光材料实现对全波段感光，同时光谱增感技术在现代光信息记录与存储、光电器件、太阳能转换与存储等领域具有重要的应用.应用微波吸收介电谱技术研究了立方体氯化银吸附感绿菁染料后的光电子衰减特性，建立了氯化银光电子衰减动力学模型，根据此模型结合光电子衰减实验结果对光谱增感染料吸附在卤化银表面的电子陷阱效应进行了分析.研究结果表明：当染料以单分子态吸附在卤化银表面时，染料起浅电子陷阱效应；染料以J聚集体吸附在卤化银表面时，染料起到了深电子陷阱效应.浅电子陷阱与深电子陷阱效应的临界浓度为每40g 关键词： 感绿染料 氯化银 光电子衰减 电子陷阱效应     

Effect of photoconductivity and dielectric constant of the photorefractive materials on two-beam coupling gain and phase-shifts for a single unidirectional photorefractive ring resonator

Photoconductive dependence of two-beam coupling between the pump beam and the signal beam in photorefractive materials have been analyzed in case of non-degenerate wave mixing under the undepleted pump approximation method. During the two-wave mixing in photorefractive materials, steady state amplification of the signal beam and oscillation characteristics of a single unidirectional ring resonator has been studied. The domination of the two-beam coupling gain over the combined absorption and resonator losses such as Fresnel reflections from the crystal and imperfect mirrors builds up unidirectional oscillation. The buildup of such an oscillation leads to a saturation of the gain, which can be explained in terms of the photorefractive phase-shift. The existence of this phase-shift between the photorefractive index grating and the illumination intensity pattern, which is of characteristic of the photorefractive effect, leads to an energy transfer between the two beams. For a single unidirectional ring resonators, the effects of photoconductivity of the materials, two-beam energy coupling coefficient, dielectric constant, crystal thickness, and material's absorption coefficient on amplification of the two-beam coupling gain and photorefractive phase-shifts of the signal beam have also been studied in detail. It has been found that amplification of the signal beam and phase-shift can be enhanced by taking the photorefractive crystal having higher photoconductivity and lower dielectric constant, which improves performance of the resonators.     

Field asymmetry of the dynamic gain coefficient in organic photorefractive devices

The performance of amorphous organic photorefractive materials in holographic two-beam coupling experiments in the typical tilted geometry was found to be asymmetric with respect to the applied electric field direction. For one field direction, light is coupled into the polymer layer and can be detected on the side of the devices. For the other, the originally Gaussian-shaped writing beams show a shoulder or even split into two. The strength of the asymmetry depends on the diameter of the beams writing the hologram. We demonstrate that this effect is due to beam fanning. As a result of the fanning, the apparent photorefractive gain coefficients take on unphysical values.     

Anomalous behaviour of long-time increase in diffraction efficiency of photorefractive grating in Ce：BaTiO3 in dark

Anomalous long-time increase of the diffraction efficiency is observed in dark-decay experiments of photorefractive gratings in Ce：BaTiO3. It is deduced that a phase-conjugate beam is induced by the writing beam at acute angle to the ＋c axis of the crystal and it interferes with the other writing beam to form a second grating which is perpendicular to the first grating formed by the interference between two writing beams. The rising behaviour of the diffraction efficiency results from the different decay rates of these two photorefractive gratings. Furthermore, a simplified model of two gratings, both induced by two deep traps, is proposed to account for this phenomenon and the fitting results agree well with the experimental results.     

孔洞聚丙烯驻极体膜中空间电荷与孔洞击穿电荷的俘获特性

对孔洞聚丙烯(PP)驻极体膜系统的研究结果表明：孔洞PP膜中空间电荷的俘获特性随注入的空间电荷量或试样表面电位而变化,注入的电荷量较少时空间电荷主要被俘获在表面深陷阱和近表面次深陷阱中,较多的注入电荷量时空间电荷在进一步填充表层(表面和近表面)陷阱的同时,还将填充体内浅陷阱;这三类陷阱中心所对应的电荷脱阱温度分别约为160℃,138℃和92℃.而孔洞击穿电荷不仅被俘获在与试样表层空间电荷陷阱相似的孔洞表层陷阱中,还有相当的量穿过孔洞表层进入体内、成为浅阱俘获孔洞击穿电荷. 关键词： 孔洞聚丙烯膜 空间电荷 孔洞击穿电荷 俘获特性