Effects of temperature on the time responses of strontium aluminates

Abstract In this paper we study the effect of temperature on the rise and decay time responses of Eu and Eu, Dy doped strontium aluminates. Normalized switch on and switch off time responses are used to estimate the share of phosphorescence in the observed luminescence. The parameters of the power law time responses related to the relative share of phosphorescence in luminescence and to the rise/decay rates are found to be strongly temperature dependent. The results show that unlike luminescence intensity, the overall efficiency of phosphorescence increases strongly with temperature and reaches a maximum around 65 °C. Thе maximum correlates with the activation energy of the samples and depends on their doping and fabrication technology.