EPR investigation of electronic excitations in rare gas solids (Review Article)

The methods are described for producing unstable paramagnetic excited states in rare gas cryocrystals Ne, Ar, Kr, and Xe through the trapping, in the cryocrystals growing from the gas phase, the products of the gas discharge taking place in the same or other rare gas. The paper presents a technique...

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Date:1998
Main Authors: Zhitnikov, R.A., Dmitriev, Yu.A.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Фізико-технічний інститут низьких температур ім. Б.І. Вєркіна НАН України 1998
Series:Физика низких температур
Online Access:https://nasplib.isofts.kiev.ua/handle/123456789/176651
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Journal Title:Digital Library of Periodicals of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Cite this:EPR investigation of electronic excitations in rare gas solids (Review Article) / R.A. Zhitnikov, Yu.A. Dmitriev // Физика низких температур. — 1998. — Т. 24, № 10. — С. 923-940. — Бібліогр.: 23 назв. — англ.

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Summary:The methods are described for producing unstable paramagnetic excited states in rare gas cryocrystals Ne, Ar, Kr, and Xe through the trapping, in the cryocrystals growing from the gas phase, the products of the gas discharge taking place in the same or other rare gas. The paper presents a technique and results of an observation and investigation of excited states in rare gas cryocrystals with electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR). The discovered unstable paramagnetic centers are interpreted as being local metastable excited np⁵(n+1)s atomic-type states in rare gas cryocrystals which are subject to the action of the anisotropic electric field resulted from the crystal surroundings distorted by the center. An account is given of the mechanisms for formation of observed paramagnetic excited states in cryocrystals which arise owing to the excitation energy of the metastable ⁵P2 atoms of Ne, Ar, Kr, Xe and He 2³S₁ and 2¹S₀ atoms that form in the discharge in an appropriate gas and trap in the growing cryocrystal.