Role of the Sintering Temperature and Doping Level in the Structural and Spectral Properties of Eu-Doped Nanocrystalline YVO(4).
Summary of "Role of the Sintering Temperature and Doping Level in the Structural and Spectral Properties of Eu-Doped Nanocrystalline YVO(4)."
A sol-gel approach was employed to prepare nanosized YVO(4) nanopowders doped with Eu(3+) ions. Raw nanomaterials were thermally treated at 700-1000 °C for 3 h. X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis demonstrated that single-phase nanopowders with high crystallite dispersion were obtained. Our studies were focused on relating the luminescence properties of the Eu(3+) dopant to the nanocrystallite (NC) size. Depending on the thermal treatment, the average NC size was calculated to range from 20 nm to 1.1 μm. We have found that the size effect manifests mainly in the expansion of the cell volume and broadening of XRD peaks, as indicated by Rietveld analysis. Moreover, emission and excitation spectra, although typical for the Eu(3+) ions, demonstrated some degree of correlation with the calcination temperature and doping concentration. To explain these differences a detailed analysis of the luminescence spectra by the Judd-Ofelt theory has been performed.
Affiliation
Institute of Low Temperature and Structure Research, Polish Academy of Sciences , P.O. Box 1410, 50-950 Wroclaw 2, Poland.
Journal Details
This article was published in the following journal.
Name: Inorganic chemistry
ISSN: 1520-510X
Pages: 1180-6
Links
- PubMed Source: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22220851
- DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ic202444s
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