Theoretical analysis of the kinetics of low-temperature defect recombination in alkali halide crystals

We analyzed carefully the experimental kinetics of the low-temperature diffusion-controlled F, H center recombination in a series of irradiated alkali halides and extracted the migration energies and pre-exponential parameters for the hole H centers. The migration energy for the complementary electronic F centers in NaCl was obtained from the colloid formation kinetics observed above room temperature. The obtained parameters were compared with data available from the literature. PACS: 61.72.Cc Kinetics of defect formation and annealing 61.82.Ms Insulators (radiation effects in..) 64.70.pv Colloids.