Jh. Chung et al., Formation and distinctive decay times of surface- and lattice-bound Mn2+ impurity luminescence in ZnS nanoparticles, J PHYS CH B, 105(19), 2001, pp. 4128-4132
The Mn2+ impurity luminescence decay of Mn2+-doped ZnS nanoparticles has be
en clearly distinguished from ZnS host emission decay by measuring transien
t absorption and emission kinetic profiles in the picosecond-millisecond ti
me domain. The Mn2+ luminescence for the doped sample shows two decay compo
nents of 0.18 and 2 ms. The fast one is attributed ra surface-bound Mn2+ im
purities and the slow one to lattice-bound Mn2+ impurities. Ln comparison,
the slowest component of ZnS host emission decays within 20 ns. Moreover, e
xcitation-energy transfer from ZnS host to Mn2+ impurity is also measured t
o occur on the time scale of 700 ps.