A valence states approach for luminescence enhancement by low dopant concentration in Eu-doped ZnO nanoparticles

Journal of Materials Science

Volumn 50, Issue 18, 2015, Pages 6075-6086

  Mesaros, A ^a   Toloman, D ^b   Nasui, M ^a   Mos, R B ^a   Petrisor, T ^a   Vasile, B S ^c   Surdu, V A ^c   Perhaita, I ^d   Biris, A ^b   Pana, O ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CLUJ NAPOCA   (Romania)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT OF ISOTOPIC AND MOLECULAR TECHNOLOGIES   (Romania)

^c UNIVERSITY POLITEHNICA OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^d BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECOMPOSITION; DOPING (ADDITIVES); FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LUMINESCENCE; NANOPARTICLES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); THERMOANALYSIS; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; ZINC; ZINC OXIDE; ZINC SULFIDE;

DECOMPOSITION MECHANISM; DOPANT CONCENTRATIONS; EVOLVED GAS ANALYSIS; LUMINESCENCE ENHANCEMENTS; MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTIC; POLYHEDRAL NANOPARTICLES; TRIVALENT EUROPIUM IONS; WET CHEMICAL SYNTHESIS;

EUROPIUM;

EID: 84932192054     PISSN: 00222461     EISSN: 15734803     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10853-015-9157-z     Document Type: Article

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