Surface modification of grains with silver nanoclusters: A new route to great enhancement of photoluminescence in Eu3+-doped ferroelectric polycrystalline oxide thin films

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 24, 2013, Pages 29425-29434

  Su, Li ^a   Qin, Ni ^a   Sa, Tongliang ^a   Bao, Dinghua ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERROELECTRIC MATERIALS; FERROELECTRICITY; MATERIALS PROPERTIES; NANOCLUSTERS; THIN FILMS;

CHARGE TRANSFER BANDS; CHEMICAL SOLUTION DEPOSITION METHOD; CRYSTALLINE GRAINS; DIELECTRIC AND FERROELECTRIC PROPERTIES; EXCITATION SPECTRUM; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE ENHANCEMENT; POLYCRYSTALLINE OXIDES; SILVER NANOCLUSTERS;

PHOTOLUMINESCENCE;

EUROPIUM; METAL NANOPARTICLE; NANOCOMPOSITE; OXIDE; SILVER;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; LUMINESCENCE; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; SURFACE PROPERTY;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; EUROPIUM; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; MATERIALS TESTING; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; METAL NANOPARTICLES; NANOCOMPOSITES; OXIDES; SILVER; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84890112015     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.029425     Document Type: Article

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