On the origin of near-IR luminescence in Bi-doped materials (II). Subvalent monocation BiBi+ and cluster Bi53+ luminescence in AlCl3/ZnCl2/BiCl3 chloride glass

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 7212-7220

  Romanov, Alexey N ^a,b   Fattakhova, Zukhra T ^c   Veber, Alexander A ^d   Usovich, Olga V ^a   Haula, Elena V ^c   Korchak, Vladimir N ^c   Tsvetkov, Vladimir B ^d   Trusov, Lev A ^a   Kazin, Pavel E ^a   Sulimov, Vladimir B ^a,b  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b Dimonta Ltd   (Russian Federation)

^c SEMENOV INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^d PROKHOROV GENERAL PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BISMUTH; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; GLASS; INFRARED DEVICES;

BI-DOPED; BISMUTH-DOPED; MONOCATIONS; NEAR-IR; NIR-LUMINESCENCE; OPTICAL CHARACTERISTICS; OXIDE GLASS; SUBVALENT;

LUMINESCENCE;

BISMUTH; CHLORINE; GLASS;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INFRARED RADIATION; INSTRUMENTATION; LUMINESCENCE; METHODOLOGY;

BISMUTH; CHLORINE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GLASS; INFRARED RAYS; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS;

EID: 84859402763     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.007212     Document Type: Article

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