Comment on "Spectroscopic properties and location of the Ce3+ energy levels in Y3Al2Ga3O12 and Y3Ga5O12 at ambient and high hydrostatic pressure" by S. Mahlik, A. Lazarowska, J. Ueda, S. Tanabe and M. Grinberg, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2016, 18, 6683

Yongjie Wang; M Głowacki; M Berkowski; A Kamińska; Andrzej Suchocki

doi:10.1039/c8cp06154h

Comment on "Spectroscopic properties and location of the Ce³⁺ energy levels in Y₃Al₂Ga₃O₁₂ and Y₃Ga₅O₁₂ at ambient and high hydrostatic pressure" by S. Mahlik, A. Lazarowska, J. Ueda, S. Tanabe and M. Grinberg, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2016, 18, 6683

Phys Chem Chem Phys. 2019 Jan 30;21(5):2816-2817. doi: 10.1039/c8cp06154h.

Authors

Yongjie Wang¹, M Głowacki, M Berkowski, A Kamińska, Andrzej Suchocki

Affiliation

¹ Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Al. Lotników 32/46, 02-668 Warsaw, Poland. suchy@ifpan.edu.pl.

PMID: 30548031
DOI: 10.1039/c8cp06154h

Abstract

The temperature dependence of the band-gap energy affects the evaluation of the energy positions of rare-earth 4f levels in relation to the vacuum level. Neglecting this dependence may lead to strongly distorted results.