ZHANG Ming, YU Hua, ZHANG Ming-hao, et al. Mechanics of Upconversion Luminescence in Glass and Glass Ceramics Co-doped with Tm3+/Yb3+[J]. Chinese journal of luminescence, 2009, 30(3): 304-308.
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ZHANG Ming, YU Hua, ZHANG Ming-hao, et al. Mechanics of Upconversion Luminescence in Glass and Glass Ceramics Co-doped with Tm3+/Yb3+[J]. Chinese journal of luminescence, 2009, 30(3): 304-308.DOI:
Mechanics of Upconversion Luminescence in Glass and Glass Ceramics Co-doped with Tm3+/Yb3+
-codoped transparent oxyfluoride glass and glass ceramics were prepared by melt-quenching and subsequently heat-treatment to forming the fluoride nanocrystals embedded among the oxide glassy matrix. The advantages of these materials are that the rare earth ions are incorporated selectively in the fluoride crystal phase with lower phonon energy after heat-treatment and the material remains transparent due to much smaller size of precipitated crystals than the wavelength of visible light. Intense blue upconversion luminescence was observed under 980 nm laser excitation. X-ray diffraction (XRD) and fluorescence spectra investigation reveal that fluoride nanocrystals are distributed homogeneously among the glassy matrix for the sample doped with Tm
3+
/Yb
3+
. Tm
3+
is one of the most studied rare-earth ions for blue laser operation based on upconversion. One approach to improving the luminescent efficiency of Tm
3+
is to co-doped with other rare-earth ions. The choice of host materials is also an important issue when it deals with improving the efficiency of the emission process. With the increasing Yb
3+
concentration
blue upconversion emissions show different variable tendency in glass and glass ceramics co-doped with Tm
3+
/Yb
3+
. In this paper
different upconversion energy transfer processes were explained and reverse energy transfer pathway from Tm
3+
(
3
H
4
) to Yb
3+
(
2
F
5/2
) was influenced by crystal lattice field in glass and glass ceramics. In glass
the competition of positive and reverse energy transfer between Tm
3+
and Yb
3+
ions causes maximal blue upconversion emission at optimal Yb
3+
concentration. The blue upconversion emission
however
increases with the increasing Yb
3+
ion in glass ceramics.
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