Produção e caraterização de materiais vítreos de germanato com nanopartículas metálicas e íons de érbio para aplicações em fotônica. / Production and characterization of germanate glasses with metallic nanoparticles and erbium ions for photonic applications.
AUTOR(ES)
Davinson Mariano da Silva
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
2007
RESUMO
This work presents the preparation and investigation of the luminescent properties of PbO-GeO2 and PbO-GeO2-Ga2O3 vitreous systems, doped with Erbium ions and containing silver, gold and copper metallic nanoparticles (NPs), for applications in photonic devices. These glasses have a large transmission window (400-4500nm), high refractive index (~1,9) and low phonon energy (700cm-1). Transmission Electronic Microscopy analysis were performed, to verify the metallic NPs nucleation. This analysis indicated that the NPs are metallic and crystalline, approximately spherical, with average size between 2 and 10nm. Optical Absorption measurements showed the Er3+ ions incorporation are in trivalent form and the presence of the absorption bands related to the surface plasmon resonance (SPR) centered around 470nm (for silver NPs) and around 800nm (for copper NPs). Emission measurements were performed pumping the samples with a cw laser (980nm; 80mW). Bands associated to Er3+ frequency upconversion centered around 530, 550 and 670nm were observed due to the transitions 2H11/2 ->4I15/2, 4S3/2 ->4I15/2 e 4F9/2 ->4I15/2, respectively. For the samples containing silver NPs, for 1,0 and 2,0% of AgNO3, it was observed a higher enhancement of the green emission (530 and 550nm), with the increasing of the annealing time, when compared to the emission at 670nm. The samples with 0,5 and 1,0% of Au2O3 showed higher enhancement of the emission centered at 670nm, when compared to the emissions at 530 and 550nm. For the samples with copper NPs, the Er3+ emissions were uniformly affected by the presence of the NPs, and have lower intensity than the other ones. The study of the variation of the fluorescence intensity with the pump laser power indicated that two photons are involved in the frequency upconversion process in the presence and in the absence of the metallic NPs. The observed enhancements in the luminescence are probably due to the local field enhancement in the proximities of the rare-earth ions, due to the small size observed for the NPs (2-10nm). Thus, the presence of metallic NPs plays an important role in the enhancement and/or quenching of the Er3+ frequency upconversion, given new properties to glasses which are of great interest for application in photonic devices.
ASSUNTO(S)
terras raras fotônica frequency upconversion nanopartículas vidro erbium glasses metallic nanoparticles rare-earth ions
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