Doping concentration induced phase transition in Eu3+-doped β-PbF2 nano-particles

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 21, 2013, Pages 24742-24752

  Guo, Hui ^a   Yu, Hua ^a   Zhang, Xinxing ^a   Chang, Lifen ^a   Lan, Zijian ^a   Li, Yiming ^a   Zhao, Lijuan ^a  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOPARTICLES; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

DOPING CONCENTRATION; EUROPIUM-DOPED; FIRST PRINCIPLE CALCULATIONS; INDUCED PHASE TRANSITION; INTERMEDIATE PHASE; SITE SYMMETRY; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT; TETRAGONAL PHASE;

DOPING (ADDITIVES);

EID: 84886425611     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.024742     Document Type: Article

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