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Crystallization and optical properties of Tm3+/Yb3+-co-doped KLaF4 glass-ceramics

A. de Pablos-Martín, ORCID logo †*ac   D. Ristic,d   A. Durán,a   M. Ferrarib  and  M. J. Pascuala  

* Corresponding authors

a Instituto de Cerámica y Vidrio (CSIC), C/Kelsen 5, Campus de Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain

b CNR-IFN, CSMFO Lab, Via Alla Cascata 56/C, 38123 Trento, Italy

c Fraunhofer Institute for Microstructure of Materials and Systems IMWS, Walter-Hülse-Str. 1, 06120 Halle, Germany
E-mail: araceli.pablos-martin@imws.fraunhofer.de
Fax: +49 345 5589 101
Tel: +49 345 5589 227

d Rudjer Boskovic Institute, Center of Excellence for Advanced Materials and Sensing Devices, Bijenicka c. 54, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

Nanocrystallization of KLaF4 in a 70 SiO2–7 Al2O3–16 K2O–7 LaF3 (mol%) glass co-doped with 0.2 mol% Tm2O3 and 0.5 mol% YbF3 was achieved by heat treatment above the glass transition temperature. KLaF4 nanocrystals of 6 nm precipitated and the crystal size was constant from 10 to 150 h of annealing time. The crystalline fraction achieved was very low, due to the drastic effect of the addition of dopants. The optical characterization of the obtained transparent glass and glass-ceramic showed a blue up-conversion emission due to an energy transfer mechanism involving two photons. However, there were no significant differences in the optical features between glass and glass-ceramic due to a low-crystallization degree. The role of dopant ions in the crystallization mechanism has been discussed.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C6CE01845A
Article type
Paper
Submitted
23 Aug 2016
Accepted
07 Jan 2017
First published
09 Jan 2017

CrystEngComm, 2017,19, 967-974

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Crystallization and optical properties of Tm3+/Yb3+-co-doped KLaF4 glass-ceramics

A. de Pablos-Martín, D. Ristic, A. Durán, M. Ferrari and M. J. Pascual, CrystEngComm, 2017, 19, 967 DOI: 10.1039/C6CE01845A

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