Compositional tuning of photoluminescence properties in Nd-Doped YAG-YSGG mixed structures

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 563-569

  Anedda, Alberto ^a   Carbonaro, Carlo Maria ^a   Chiriu, Daniele ^a   Ricci, Pier Carlo ^a   Aburish Hmidat, Mahmoud ^b   Guerini, Maurilio ^b   Lorrai, Pier Giorgio ^b   Fortin, Emery ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^b Scientific Materials Europe ^*  (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Compositional tuning; Mixed garnet; Photoluminescence; Yttrium aluminum garnet(YAG); Yttrium scaldium gallium garnet(YSGG)

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITION; LIGHT EMISSION; NEODYMIUM; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; YTTRIUM COMPOUNDS;

COMPOSITIONAL TUNING; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE PROPERTY; YTTRIUM ALUMINUM GARNET; YTTRIUM SCANDIUM GALLIUM GARNET;

PHOTOLUMINESCENCE;

EID: 33646866321     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2006.874061     Document Type: Article

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