Luminescent properties of nanostructured Dy3+- and Tm3+-doped lanthanum chloride prepared by reactive atmosphere processing of sol-gel derived lanthanum hydroxide

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 93, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 2946-2951

  Soga, Kohei ^a   Wang, Wenzhong ^b   Riman, Richard E ^b   Bryan Brown, J ^c   Mikeska, Kurt R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DUPONT COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYSPROSIUM; IONS; LUMINESCENCE; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; QUENCHING; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SOL-GELS; THULIUM;

REACTIVE ATMOSPHERE PROCESSING;

LANTHANUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 0037349279     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1540229     Document Type: Article

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