In this work, Li-doped NiO:Yb,Er thin films are obtained via pulsed laser deposition. It was found that the films exhibit high transparency in the visible region and clearly red up-conversion luminescence under 980 nm excitation. Doping with Li can adjust the up-conversion emission intensity of the films. Moreover, all the films have p-type conductivity with a single activation energy of around 360 meV. The sheet resistivity of the films can be improved through changing the doping concentration of Li ions. Taken together, 5% is the best doping concentration for the potential application of this kind of film.
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Nanomaterials (Basel)
December 2024
Institute of Physics, Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Informatics, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, ul. Grudziądzka, 5, 87-100 Toruń, Poland.
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December 2024
Key Laboratory of Weak-Light Nonlinear Photonics, Ministry of Education, School of Physics, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071, China.
With the development of optical anti-counterfeiting and the increasing demand for high-level information encryption, multimodal luminescence (MML) materials attract much attention. However, the discovery of these multifunctional materials is very accidental, and the versatile host suitable for developing such materials remains unclear. Here, a grossite-type fast ionic conductor CaGaO, characterized by layered and tunnel structure with excellent defect tolerance, is found to meet the needs of various luminescent processes.
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December 2024
Suzhou Laboratory, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China.
Fucoxanthin is a typical carotenoid that absorbs light in the blue region of the visible spectrum, and its detailed electronic structures remain to be clarified. It is well known that carotenoids harvest energy from sunlight and transfer it to chlorophylls (Chls) and/or bacteriochlorophylls (BChls) through its excited states as the intermediate states; however, some excited states still need evidence to be definitely confirmed. Through steady-state fluorescence emission spectroscopy and femtosecond time-resolved fluorescence up-conversion technique, we provide new evidence for the identification of the excited S state in fucoxanthin, a representative of carotenoids.
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November 2024
Department of Physics, Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati, India.
Er and Er/Yb-doped phosphate-based glasses have been synthesized by melt quenching technique and are characterized by absorption spectra, infrared emission, decay curves, Fourier transform infrared spectrum and up-conversion studies. From the absorption spectra, intensity parameters and radiative properties have been derived utilizing the Judd-Ofelt theory. Er-doped glass is found to have larger radiative lifetime for the laser originating from I level at 1537 nm.
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November 2024
College of Materials Science and Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, China.
Rare-earth materials are widely used in the optical field due to their rich energy-level structures, and if endowed with photoelectric response characteristics, they are expected to be applied to photoelectric multifunctional devices. In this paper, Ho- and Yb-codoped KNaNbO (KNN) ferroelectric ceramics are synthesized, and the up-conversion and down-conversion luminescence intensity as well as the decay degree after photochromism can be controlled by the content of Yb. Strong green luminescence visible to the naked eye is realized, and the maximum luminescence decay is more than 50%.
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