
The luminescence properties of yttrium niobate are reported. Two emission bands are observed, one in the blue and the other in the yellow spectral region. Decay measurements on the blue emission, which is the intrinsic niobate luminescence, provide evidence that this luminescence cannot be described with a tetrahedral niobate group. The yellow emission is ascribed to a niobate group lacking an oxygen ion. Experiments on energy transfer reveal that the main process involved in the thermal quenching of the luminescence of yttrium niobate is not energy transfer between niobate groups, but thermal quenching within the excited niobate group. On rapporte sur les propretes de luminescence du niobate d'yttrium. Le spectre d'emission comporte deux bandes, l'un dans la region spectrale bleue, l'autre dans la region spectrale jaune. La mesure des durees de vie de la luminescence bleue, la luminescence propre des niobates, a mis en evidence que celle-la ne peut pas ětre decrite avec le modele d'un centre luminogene de symetrie tetragonale. L'emission jaune est ettribuee a un centre de niobate, qui manque d'un ion oxygene. Les experiments sur le transfert d'energie montrent que le processus principal contribuant a l'extinction thermale de la luminescence du niobate d'yttrium, n'est pas l'augmentation de transfert d'energie entre les centres de niobate, mais l'extinction thermale dans le centre excite měme.
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