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Sensors and Materials, Volume 33, Number 5(3) (2021)
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S&M2568 Research Paper
https://doi.org/10.18494/SAM.2021.3364
Published: May 21, 2021

Annealing Temperature Dependence of Upconversion Phosphor of TiO2-ZnO Doped with Yb3+ and Tm3+ [PDF]

Toshihiro Nonaka, Takahiko Ban, and Shin-Ichi Yamamoto

(Received March 15, 2021; Accepted April 30, 2021)

Keywords: upconversion, TiO2-ZnO, Yb3+, Tm3+, metal-organic decomposition

In this paper, we report on the annealing temperature dependence of the upconversion (UC) phosphor of TiO2-ZnO doped with Yb3+ and Tm3+. We prepared samples using metal-organic decomposition (MOD) solutions and Tm2O3 powder, which were analyzed in terms of their photoluminescence (PL) spectra and crystal structures. The PL spectra showed a blue UC phosphor band at a wavelength of 476 nm. The emission intensity was greatest after annealing at 850 °C. By analyzing the crystal structures using an X-ray diffractometer (XRD), it was found that there was a large amount of RE2Ti2O7 in the samples annealed at 900 ℃ and above.

Corresponding author: Toshihiro Nonaka


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Toshihiro Nonaka, Takahiko Ban, and Shin-Ichi Yamamoto, Annealing Temperature Dependence of Upconversion Phosphor of TiO2-ZnO Doped with Yb3+ and Tm3+, Sens. Mater., Vol. 33, No. 5, 2021, p. 1739-1747.



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