Luminescence quenching inFcenters under pressure

Abstract
Pressure effects on F-center emission in KCl, KBr, KI, CsCl, CsBr, and CsI are observed under pressures ranging from 1 atm to 12 kbar at 1.6 K. In potassium halides the F-center emission shows a monotonic decrease with increasing pressure, while in cesium halides it shows an anomalous feature: It recovers and increases far beyond its value at 1 atm, after first decreasing at low pressures. These pressure effects observed at extremely low temperatures are considered to be due to dynamical nonradiative transitions, and can be explained by the Dexter-Klick-Russell mechanism in a one-dimensional configuration coordinate model under hydrostatic pressure.