Electronic excitations induced by the impact of coinage metal ions and clusters on a rare gas matrix: Neutralization and luminescence

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 76, Issue 10, 2007, Pages

  Harbich, Wolfgang ^a   Sieber, Christoph ^a   Meiwes Broer, Karl Heinz ^b   Félix, Christian ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

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EID: 34748875212     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.76.104306     Document Type: Article

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58. Electrons accelerated by the electrical field are energetic and do not necessarily neutralize a positive charge, but will be only deflected by it.
59. A definite proof for that would be to look for VUV luminescence signature of the recombination of free or trapped excitons. This has not been done for technical reasons.
60. The peak at 2.45 eV is most probably due to a long lived state that is excited with excitons but that cannot be populated by UV-Vis optical excitation. The suggested assignment to Au Hx complexes is probably wrong as well as the comparison with the fluorescence of Ag3 suggested in Ref.. We see no reasons for an hydrogen contamination in the present experiments.