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- Title
Ag-SiO<sub>2</sub>-Er<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub> Nanocomposites: Highly Effective Upconversion Luminescence at High Power Excitation and High Temperature.
- Authors
Wen Xu; Xiaolei Min; Xu Chen; Yongsheng Zhu; Pingwei Zhou; Shaobo Cui; Sai Xu; Li Tao; Hongwei Song
- Abstract
Rare Earth (RE) activated upconversion phosphors (UCPs), have demonstrated significant application potentials in some front fields, including solar energy conversion and bio-application. However, some bottleneck problems should be overcame, such as the lower upconversion efficiency, narrower excitation band, concentration-quenching and temperature-quenching. To solve these problems, the Ag-SiO2-Er2O3 nanocomposites were fabricated, in which the upconversion luminescence (UCL) of Er2O3 was white broadband. Through the interaction of Er2O3 with surface plasmon (SP) of silver nanoparticles (SNPs), the threshold power for generating broadbands was suppressed largely in contrast to the Er2O3 nanoparticles (NPs), while the UCL brightness was enhanced remarkably, ranging from several to 104 times, which strongly depended on the power density of excitation light. At excitation power density of 1.50 W/mm² of 980 nm light, the UCL intensity of Ag-SiO2-Er2O3 is 40-folds than the well-known NaYF4:Yb3+,Er3+ commercial powders. And more, it is also interesting to observe that the composites demonstrate two excitation bands extending of 780-980 nm, highly improved UCL with elevated temperature and excitation power density. The UCL mechanism related to UCL enhancement was carefully studied.
- Subjects
PHOSPHORS; NANOCOMPOSITE materials; SOLAR energy conversion; SURFACE plasmons; SILVER nanoparticles; LUMINESCENCE
- Publication
Scientific Reports, 2014, p1
- ISSN
2045-2322
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/srep05087