Suppression of luminescence quenching at the nanometer scale in Gd 2O3 doped with Eu3+ or Tb3+: Systematic comparison between nanometric and macroscopic samples of life-time, quantum yield, radiative and non-radiative decay rates

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 110, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Mutelet, B ^a,b   Perriat, P ^a   Ledoux, G ^b   Amans, D ^b   Lux, F ^b   Tillement, O ^b   Billotey, C ^b   Janier, M ^b   Villiers, C ^c   Bazzi, R ^d   Roux, S ^d   Lu, G ^e   Gong, Q ^e   Martini, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^c INSTITUT ALBERT BONNIOT   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

^e PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; EUROPIUM COMPOUNDS; LUMINESCENCE; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; QUANTUM YIELD; QUENCHING; RARE EARTHS; TERBIUM COMPOUNDS;

ELECTRONIC CONFIGURATION; LUMINESCENCE QUENCHING; MACROSCOPIC SAMPLE; MACROSCOPIC SCALE; NON-RADIATIVE LOSS; NONRADIATIVE DECAYS; RARE EARTH CATIONS; SURFACE HYDROXYL GROUPS;

GADOLINIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 81355142795     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3658810     Document Type: Article

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