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Investigation of anomalous upconversion luminescence in YbAG: Er, Mo

  • Xiuna Tian
  • , Lingyuan Wu
  • , Guicheng Jiang
  • , Xiantao Wei
  • , Yonghu Chen
  • , Changkui Duan
  • , Min Yin*
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • University of Science and Technology of China

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Abstract

In molybdenum (Mo6+) doped upconversion (UC) materials, such as Yb3Al5O12 and Yb2Ti 2O7, anomalous UC luminescence has been discovered recently. In this paper, Yb2.75-xEr0.25Mo xAl5O12 phosphors with different Mo-content were synthesized via the sol-gel method. According to the analysis of the structural components and the luminescence spectra of the samples, we found that the Yb2(MoO4)3 impurity which was introduced into YbAG sample by Mo6+ doping is responsible for the anomalous intense UC luminescence. Quantitive analyses on the dependence of UC luminescence intensity upon pump power indicate UC green luminescence is a two-photon process for Yb2(MoO4)3: Er 3+ 1% and Yb2.25Er0.25Mo0.5Al 5O12 systems, which is far less than the lowest excited state level of MoO42-.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)48-50
Number of pages3
JournalMaterials Letters
Volume123
DOIs
StatePublished - 15 May 2014
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Luminescence
  • Spectroscopy
  • Upconversion

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