Intermediate Ce3+ defect level induced photoluminescence and third-order nonlinear optical effects in TiO2-CeO2 nanocomposites

Applied Physics A: Materials Science and Processing

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 315-321

  Divya, S ^a   Nampoori, V P N ^a   Radhakrishnan, P ^a   Mujeeb, A ^a  

^a Department of Physics   (India)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE STUDIES; INTERMEDIATE STATE; NONLINEAR ABSORPTIONS; NONLINEAR OPTICAL DEVICES; NONLINEAR OPTICAL STUDIES; OPTICAL LIMITING; THIRD-ORDER NONLINEAR OPTICAL; TWO-PHOTON ABSORPTIONS;

ENERGY GAP; NEODYMIUM LASERS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; TWO PHOTON PROCESSES;

NANOCOMPOSITES;

EID: 84893755782     PISSN: 09478396     EISSN: 14320630     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00339-013-8134-0     Document Type: Article

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