Switching of emissivity and photoconductivity in highly doped Yb3+: Y2 O3 and Lu2 O3 ceramics

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 20, 2007, Pages

  Bisson, Jean Francois ^a   Kouznetsov, Dmitrii ^a   Ueda, Ken Ichi ^a   Fredrich Thornton, Susanne T ^a,b   Petermann, Klaus ^b   Huber, Guenter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPING (ADDITIVES); MELTING POINT; PHOTOCONDUCTIVITY; WAVELENGTH; YTTERBIUM COMPOUNDS;

BULK CERAMICS; PHOTOASSISTED AVALANCHE; THERMAL EMISSION;

CERAMIC MATERIALS;

EID: 34249004683     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2739318     Document Type: Article

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18. See EPAPS Document No. E-APPLAB-90-017720 for a video of the luminescence, its quenching, and the broadband emission of Yb3+: Lu2 O3 sample taking place during the photoconductivity measurements. This document can be reached via a direct link in the online article's HTML reference section or via the EPAPS homepage (http://www.aip.org/pubservs/epaps.html).