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Xiaofeng Liu
State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese
Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China
Zhijun Ma
State Key Laboratory of Silicon Materials, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
Jianrong Qiua)
State Key Laboratory of Silicon Materials, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China; and Institute of Optical
Communication Materials, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, China
(Received 27 April 2010; accepted 19 November 2010)
I. INTRODUCTION
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increased from the ultraviolet (UV) region to the nearinfrared (NIR) region with the maximum value at around
1100 nm, which is in agreement with the band gap of Si
(1.1 eV). Many investigations have been carried out on
DC of UV or visible photons to NIR photons choosing
Yb3+ as the luminescence
center226 because the energy
3+ 2
level difference of Yb : F5/2 and F7/2 is a little larger than
the band gap of Si. Making the couple of Ce3+ and Yb3+ as
an ion pair has been reported before; however, the practical quantum efciency is much lower than the theoretical
quantum efciency.7 In this paper, we investigate whether
we can get more efcient NIR emission with Ce3+Nd3+
couple compared with Ce3+Yb3+ couple in YAG. Since
Nd3+ energy level transitions have a NIR emission similar
to Yb3+ for application in Si solar cell and the rst-order
energy transfer (ET) with an intermediate level (ET
between Ce3+ and Nd3+), they may be more efcient than
the second-order cooperative energy transfer process (ET
between Ce3+ and Yb3+).
II. EXPERIMENTAL
YAG powder samples with different doping concentrations of Ce3+ and Nd3+/Yb3+ [Y3 x yCex(Nd/Yb)y
Al5O12] (x 5 0, 0.12; y 5 0, 0.024, 0.06, 0.12, 0.24,
0.36) were prepared with a sol-gel route using citric acid
and ethylene glycol (EG) as the chelating agents.8 The
obtained powders comprise single-phase YAG (JCPDS
No. 33-0040), which was identied with x-ray diffraction
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FIG. 1. Excitation and emission spectra of Y3 x yCexNdyAl5O12 (x 5 0, 0.12; y 5 0, 0.024, 0.06, 0.12, 0.24, 0.36). (a) Excitation spectra of Nd3+
emission monitored at 1062 nm and Ce3+ emission spectra excited at 540 nm. (b) Emission intensity changes with Nd3+ concentrations in visible and nearinfrared region under excitation at 467 nm.
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FIG. 2. Excitation and emission spectra of Y3 x yCexYbyAl5O12 (x 5 0, 0.12; y 5 0, 0.024, 0.06, 0.12, 0.24, 0.36). (a) Excitation spectra of Ce3+
emission monitored at 540 nm and Yb3+ emission monitored at 1028 nm. Inset is the enlarged view of the excitation spectrum of Y2.64Yb0.36Al5O12 from
200 to 500 nm. (b) Emission intensity changes with Yb3+ concentrations in visible and near-infrared region under excitation at 467 nm.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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