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Dorenbos, P. (author)A mechanism of persistent luminescence that was proposed in 1996 for SrAl2O4:Eu2+;Dy3+ has been widely adopted to explain afterglow in many Eu2+ and Dy3+ codoped aluminates and silicates. The mechanism involves the thermally activated release of a hole from Eu2+ in its excited 5d state to the valence band which is subsequently trapped by Dy3+....journal article 2005