Low-temperature flux growth and upconversion fluorescence of the idiomorphic hexagonal-system NaYF4 and NaYF4:Ln (Ln = Yb, Er, Tm) crystals

Crystal Growth and Design

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 4825-4830

  Suzuki, Sayaka ^a   Teshima, Katsuya ^a   Wakabayashi, Toshiko ^a   Nishikiori, Hiromasa ^a   Yubuta, Kunio ^b   Shishido, Toetsu ^b   Oishi, Shuji ^a  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLUE UPCONVERSION; COOLING METHODS; CRYSTAL PHASE; CRYSTALLINITIES; DOPANT IONS; HOLDING TEMPERATURES; LOW-TEMPERATURE FLUX; MIXTURE RATIO; SIZE AND SHAPE; SOLUTE CONCENTRATIONS; STARTING COMPOSITION; TEM IMAGES; THREE-PHOTON; UP-CONVERSION PROCESS; UPCONVERSION FLUORESCENCE; UPCONVERSION FLUORESCENCE PROPERTY;

DOPING (ADDITIVES); ERBIUM; FLUORESCENCE; TWO PHOTON PROCESSES; YTTERBIUM;

CRYSTALS;

EID: 82955192490     PISSN: 15287483     EISSN: 15287505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/cg200580z     Document Type: Article

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