Enhancing upconverted white light in Tm3+/Yb3+/ Ho3+-doped GdVO4 nanocrystals via incorporation of Li + ions

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 111-119

  Mahalingam, Venkataramanan ^a   Naccache, Rafik ^b   Vetrone, Fiorenzo ^c   Capobianco, John A ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH KOLKATA   (India)

^b Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^c INRS EMT   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOLMIUM; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; NANOCRYSTALS; X RAY DIFFRACTION; YTTERBIUM;

BLUE EMISSION; COLOR COORDINATES; FLUORESCENCE LIFETIME MEASUREMENTS; MATRIX; MULTIPHOTONS; NEAR INFRARED LIGHT; UP-CONVERSION PROCESS; WHITE LIGHT; WHITE LIGHT EMISSION;

IONS;

GADOLINIUM; LITHIUM;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COLOR; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY;

COLOR; GADOLINIUM; LIGHT; LITHIUM; MATERIALS TESTING; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 84855453274     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.000111     Document Type: Article

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