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The luminescence spectra of aluminum oxide with an ordered system of through pores have been studied. The diameter and density of pores were ≈ 50 nm and 1.2 × 1010 cm−2, respectively. Amorphous aluminum oxide formed by anodization of aluminum foil in an oxalic acid electrolyte shows intense luminescence in the blue spectral region. Processing of spectra with the use of an oxalic acid approximation by Gaussian curves gives three bands peaking at ∼ 382 (3.2 eV), 461 (2.7 eV), and 500 nm (2.5 eV), which correspond to different types of defects. The bands at 382 and 461 nm can be assigned to optical transitions involving F+ and F centers (vacancies of oxygen with one or two electrons), respectively. The lower-energy band near 500 nm can be presumably assigned to luminescence from F++ centers (vacancy of oxygen without an electron). Analysis of the luminescence excitation spectra has revealed an inhomogeneous character of the distribution of the corresponding luminescence centers in the Al2O3 matrix.
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Original Russian Text © F.F. Komarov, A.V. Mudryi, L.A. Vlasukova, N.I. Mukhurov, A.V. Ivanyukovich, 2008, published in Optika i Spektroskopiya, 2008, Vol. 104, No. 2, pp. 272–275.
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Komarov, F.F., Mudryi, A.V., Vlasukova, L.A. et al. Intense blue luminescence of anodic aluminum oxide. Opt. Spectrosc. 104, 235–237 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0030400X08020148
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