"Unusual Ln3+ substitutional defects": The local chemical environment of Pr3+ and Nd3+ in nanocrystalline TiO2 by Ln-K edge EXAFS

Journal of Solid State Chemistry

Volumn 180, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 3296-3301

  Ghigna, Paolo ^a   Speghini, Adolfo ^b   Bettinelli, Marco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

EXAFS; Lanthanides; Luminescence; Nanocrystalline oxides; TiO2

Indexed keywords

EXTENDED X RAY ABSORPTION FINE STRUCTURE SPECTROSCOPY; LUMINESCENCE; NANOCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; NEODYMIUM COMPOUNDS; POSITIVE IONS; RARE EARTH ELEMENTS; SOL-GEL PROCESS; TITANIUM OXIDES;

LN-O DISTANCES; LOCAL CHEMICAL ENVIRONMENT; NANOPOWDERS; PYROCHLORE IMPURITIES PHASES;

PRASEODYMIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 36248976023     PISSN: 00224596     EISSN: 1095726X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jssc.2007.09.025     Document Type: Article

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