Atomic-scale identification of individual lanthanide dopants in optical glass fiber

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 5058-5063

  Mizoguchi, Teruyasu ^a   Findlay, Scott D ^b   Masuno, Atsunobu ^a   Saito, Yoshihiro ^c   Yamaguchi, Koji ^c   Inoue, Hiroyuki ^a   Ikuhara, Yuichi ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

amorphous; atomic resolution STEM; dopant; optical glass fiber

Indexed keywords

ABERRATION-CORRECTED; ABERRATION-CORRECTED SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPIES; AMORPHOUS GLASS; ATOMIC RESOLUTION; HIGH-ANGLE ANNULAR DARK FIELDS; IDENTIFICATION OF INDIVIDUALS; IMAGE SIMULATIONS; SPECIMEN THICKNESS;

AMORPHOUS MATERIALS; ATOMS; CHEMICAL ELEMENTS; ERBIUM; FIBERS; GLASS FIBERS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL GLASS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

DOPING (ADDITIVES);

EID: 84879644568     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn400605z     Document Type: Article

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