Boltzmann or not? Most luminescent thermometers rely on a configurational crossover between two excited states with high mutual non-radiative transition rates and relative sensitivity. It is shown that these materials follow a “quasi”-Boltzmann law as is demonstrated for the case of Sm 2+ .
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