Experiment and theoretical modeling of the luminescence of silver nanoclusters dispersed in oxyfluoride glass

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 136, Issue 17, 2012, Pages

  Cuong, Ngo T ^a   Tikhomirov, Victor K ^a   Chibotaru, Liviu F ^a   Stesmans, Andre ^a   Rodríguez, Vicente D ^b   Nguyen, Minh T ^a   Moshchalkov, Victor V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATION SITES; COMPLETE ACTIVE SPACE; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORIES (DFT); DIAMAGNETIC STATE; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTRA; EXCITATION SPECTRUM; FLUORINE IONS; OXY-FLUORIDE GLASS; PERTURBATION THEORY; SILVER NANOCLUSTERS; TETRAMERS; THEORETICAL MODELING;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; FLUORINE; GLASS; LUMINESCENCE; OLIGOMERS; SPIN GLASS;

NANOCLUSTERS;

EID: 84862883335     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4707709     Document Type: Article

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