Synthesis and optical properties of infrared-emitting YF3:Nd nanoparticles

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 106, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Tan, Mei Chee ^a   Kumar, G A ^a   Riman, Richard E ^a   Brik, M G ^b   Brown, E ^c   Hommerich, U ^c  

^a Piscataway   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^c Hampton University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL FIELD PARAMETER; DIPOLE DIPOLE INTERACTIONS; DOPANT CONCENTRATIONS; EMISSION BANDS; EMISSION CROSS SECTION; EMISSION SPECTRUMS; ENERGY MATRIX; ENERGY MIGRATION; FLUORESCENCE BRANCHING RATIO; FLUORESCENCE DECAYS; FLUORESCENCE SPECTRA; INTERACTION PARAMETERS; JUDD-OFELT PARAMETRIZATION; LASER HOSTS; MULTIPHONON RELAXATIONS; OLEYLAMINE; OPTICAL AMPLIFIER; OPTICAL CHARACTERIZATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATIVE PROPERTIES; RADIATIVE TRANSITION PROBABILITIES; SOLVOTHERMAL DECOMPOSITION; SPECTRAL PARAMETERS; SPIN ORBIT INTERACTIONS; SPIN ORBITS; SPIN OTHER ORBITS; STIMULATED EMISSION CROSS SECTION; TRIFLUOROACETATES;

CRYSTAL IMPURITIES; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; ENERGY TRANSFER; FLUORESCENCE; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; NANOCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; NANOPARTICLES; NEODYMIUM; NEODYMIUM LASERS; OPTICAL GLASS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; ORBITS; QUENCHING; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SPIN DYNAMICS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); THERMOGRAPHY (IMAGING); YTTRIUM;

QUANTUM EFFICIENCY;

EID: 70349646114     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3168442     Document Type: Article

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