Radiative decay of electronic excitations in ZrO2 nanocrystals and macroscopic single crystals

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1523-1526

  Smits, Krisjanis ^a   Grigorjeva, Larisa ^a   Millers, Donats ^a   Fidelus, Janusz D ^b   Lojkowski, Witold ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LATVIA   (Latvia)

^b INSTITUTE OF HIGH PRESSURE PHYSICS   (Poland)

Author keywords

Photoluminescence; Scintillators; Spectroscopy; Ultrafast

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC EXCITATIONS (EE); RADIATIVE DECAYS; TIME-RESOLVED LUMINESCENCE;

ZIRCONIUM ALLOYS;

EID: 45849104851     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2008.924077     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (18)

1. H. Zhou, F. Li, B. He, J. Wang, and B. de Sun, "Air plasma sprayed thermal barrier coatings on titanium, alloy substrates," Surface Coatings Technol., vol. 201, no. 16-17, pp. 7360-7367, 2007.
2. N. Nguyen, "Ceramic fuel cells," J. Amer. Ceramic Soc., vol. 76, no. 3, pp. 563-588, 1993.
3. B. C. H. Steele, "Material science and engineering: The enabling technology for the commercialisation of fuel cell systems," J. Mater. Sci., vol. 36, no. 5, pp. 1053-1068, 2001.
4. x sensing in diesel engine exhaust stream," Sensors Actuators B: Chem., vol. 117, no. 2, pp. 839-848, 2005.
5. 2) probed by the photoinduced reduction of oxygen and oxidation of hydrogen," J. Photochem. Photobiol. A: Chem., vol. 174, pp. 214-221, 2005.
6. 2 as potential scintillators," Nucl. Instrum. Meth. Phys. Res. Sect. A, vol. 537, no. 1-2, pp. 251-255, 2005.
7. 2 nanopowders prepared via glycine nitrate process," Appl. Phys. A, vol. 81, pp. 691-694, 2005.
8. E. de la Rosa-Cruz, L. A. Diaz-Torres, P. Salas, D. Mendoza, J. M. Hernandez, and V. M. Castano, "Luminescence and thermoluminescence induced by Gamma and UV-irradiation in pure and rare earth doped zirconium oxide," Opt. Mater., vol. 1.9, pp. 195-199, 2002.
9. K. Smits, L. Grigorjeva, W. Lojkowski, and J. D. Fidelus, "Luminescence of oxygen related defects in zirconia nanocrystals," Physica Status Solidi C, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 770-773, 2007.
10. P. Li and I. W. Chen, "X-ray absorbtion studies of zirconia polymorphs. I. Characteristic local structures," Phys. Rev. B, vol. 48, no. 14, pp. 10063-10073, 1993.
11. V. Ramaswamy, M. Bhagwat, D. Srinivas, and A. V. Ramaswamy, "Structural and spectral features of nano-crystalline copper-stabilized zirconia," Catalysis Today, vol. 97, pp. 63-70, 2004.
12. N. G. Petrik, D. P. Taylor, and T. M. Orlando, "Laser-stimulated luminescence of yttria-stabilized cubic zirconia crystals," J. Appl. Phys., vol. 85, no. 9, pp. 6770-6776, 1999.
13. S. E. Paje and J. Llopis, "Disorder effects on the luminescence decay in yttria-stabilized zirconia polycrystals," J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys., vol. 29, pp. 442-445, 1996.
14. K. Hachiya, H. Oku, and J. Kondoh, "Photoluminescence in yttria-stabilized zirconia of aging effects," Phys. Rev. B, vol. 71, pp. 064111-1-064111-7, 2005.
15. H. Nakajima and T. Mori, "Photoluminescence excitation bands corresponding to defect states due to oxygen vacancies in yttria-Stabilized zirconia," J. Alloys Compounds, vol. 408-412, pp. 728-731, 2006.
16. S. E. Paje and J. Llopis, "Luminescence of polycrystaline cubic and tetragonal yttria-stabilized zirconia," J. Phys. Chem. Solids, vol. 55, no. 8, pp. 671-676, 1994.
17. J. D. Fidelus, W. Lojkowski, D. Millers, L. Grigorjeva, K. Smits, and R. R. Piticescu, "Zirconia based nanomaterials for oxygen sensors-Generation, characterisation and optical properties," Solid State Phenomena, vol. 128, pp. 141-150, 2007.
18. N. Nicoloso, A. Lobert, and B. Leibold, "Optical absorption studies of tetragonal and cubic thin film yttria stabilized zirconia," Sensors Actuators B: Chem., vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 253-256, 1992.