Relation between excitation power density and Er3+ doping yielding the highest absolute upconversion quantum yield

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 118, Issue 51, 2014, Pages 30106-30114

  Fischer, Stefan ^a   Fröhlich, Benjamin ^a   Krämer, Karl W ^b   Goldschmidt, Jan Christoph ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR SOLAR ENERGY SYSTEMS ISE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAL IONS; QUANTUM YIELD; RARE EARTHS; SUN;

AVERAGE DISTANCE; DOPING LEVELS; EXCITATION POWER DENSITY; HOST MATERIALS; IRRADIANCE LEVEL; PEAK POSITION; RARE EARTH IONS; UNDERLYING CAUSE;

ERBIUM;

EID: 84949115882     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp510209x     Document Type: Article

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