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| Title: | Model for up-conversion luminescence in silver nanoparticles embedded erbium-doped tellurite glass |
| Authors: | Ghoshal, S K
Sahar, M R
Dousti, M R
Sharma, S
Rohani, M S
Arifin, R
Hamzah, K |
| Keywords: | Nanoparticles
Up-conversion
Luminescence
Absorption coefficient
Surface plasmon resonance |
| Issue Date: | Aug-2012 |
| Publisher: | NISCAIR-CSIR, India |
| Abstract: | Nanoparticles (NPs)
size dependent enhancement of the infrared-to-visible frequency up-conversion
(UC) and absorption coefficient in silver NPs embedded Er3+ doped
tellurite glasses on pumping with the 976 nm radiation have been investigated.
The rate equations derived from the 4-level model developed by the authors
earlier to discuss temperature dependent UC have now been extended to study the
role played by NPs. The effects of quantum confinement and local field of
silver NPs have been incorporated. Considering the spherical NPs size
distribution as Gaussian, an analytical expression for the luminescence
intensity and absorption coefficient has been obtained for the first time, is
further exploited to examine the enhancement of UC emission intensity due to
the presence of silver NPs. Furthermore, an enhancement in UC emission
intensity of the green bands (2H11/2→4I15/2
and 4S3/2→4I15/2) and red
band (4F9/2→4I15/2) emission of Er3+
ion at temperature 250 K and optimized Er3+ concentration 1.0
mol% have been observed up to few times in the presence of silver NPs in the
glass. The green emission showed larger enhancement than the red emission. The
observed of Er3+ luminescence is mainly attributed to the local
field effects namely the surface plasmon resonance of silver NPs which causes
an intensified electromagnetic field around NPs, resulting in enhanced optical
transitions of Er3+ ions in the vicinity. The model is quite general
and can be applied to other rare earth doped glasses containing metallic NPs.
Our results on NPs size dependent emission intensity and absorption coefficient
are in conformity with other findings. The present systematic study provides
useful information for further development of UC lasers and sensors. |
| Page(s): | 555-565 |
| CC License: |  CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India |
| ISSN: | 0975-1041 (Online); 0019-5596 (Print) |
| Source: | IJPAP Vol.50(08) [August 2012]
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