Aa. Babaev et al., PHOTOLUMINESCENCE AND PHOTOSTRUCTURAL CONVERSIONS IN DEFORMED LAMINATED CRYSTALS AND POWDERS OF AS2S3, GESE2, AND AS2SE3, CHEMICAL PHYSICS REPORTS, 16(5), 1997, pp. 827-832
Reversible photostructural conversions (darkening and bleaching) atten
ded by a shift of the transmittance edge and by the photoluminescence
fatigue effect are revealed. Upon mechanical treatment of crystals the
maximum of the luminescence excitation spectrum shifts toward higher
energies. The low-energy edge of the luminescence spectrum flattens, a
nd emission intensity increases. The experimental results are interpre
ted within a configuration model of two stable structural states of mo
lecular groups.