Intense near-infrared emission from ZnO-LiYbO2 hybrid phosphors through efficient energy transfer from ZnO to Yb3+

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 639-644

  Ye, Song ^a,b   Jiang, Nan ^c   He, Feng ^c   Liu, Xiaofeng ^d   Zhu, Bin ^a   Teng, Yu ^a   Qiu, Jian Rong ^a,d  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND FINE MECHANICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; ENERGY HARVESTING; ENERGY TRANSFER; INFRARED DEVICES; LUMINESCENCE; PHOSPHORS; SINTERING; YTTERBIUM; ZINC;

DIFFUSION LAYERS; DIFFUSION REGION; EFFICIENT ENERGY TRANSFER; INTER-DIFFUSION; NEAR-INFRARED EMISSIONS; SEM; SOLID STATE REACTION METHOD; UV PHOTONS; WAVELENGTH REGIONS; XRD; ZNO;

ZINC OXIDE;

YTTERBIUM; ZINC OXIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; ILLUMINATION; INFRARED RADIATION; INSTRUMENTATION; LUMINESCENCE; METHODOLOGY;

ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; INFRARED RAYS; LIGHTING; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; YTTERBIUM; ZINC OXIDE;

EID: 75249096465     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.000639     Document Type: Article

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