Effects of high pressure on the optical absorption spectrum of scintillating PbWO4 crystals

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The pressure behavior of the absorption edge of PbWO4 was studied up to 15.3 GPa. It red-shifts at -71 meV/GPa below 6.1 GPa, but at 6.3 GPa the band-gap collapses from 3.5 eV to 2.75 eV. From 6.3 GPa to 11.1 GPa, the absorption edge moves with a pressure coefficient of -98 meV/GPa, undergoing additional changes at 12.2 GPa. The results are discussed in terms of the electronic structure of PbWO4 which attribute the behavior of the band-gap to changes in the local atomic structure. The changes observed at 6.3 GPa and 12.2 GPa are attributed to phase transitions.
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Materials Science, Instrumentation and Detectors

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http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/110979

Consulte el texto completo en el siguiente enlace:

https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0605649
 http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0605649
 Applied Physics Letters 89, 091913 (2006)
 doi:10.1063/1.2345228

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