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1. INTRODUCTION
Nanotechnology is almost a household word now-adays, or at least some word with Nano in it, such as
nanoscale, nanoparticle, nanophase, nanocrystal, or
nanomachine. Nanoparticles are the simplest form of
structures with sizes in the range of 1-100 nm. These
include fullerens, metalclusters and large molecules
such as proteins.
Rare-earth doped semiconductors are used as
luminescence materials. Usually, efcient energy
transfer from semiconductor host to rare-earth ions
gives the enhancement in luminescence intensity.
Semiconductor hosts such as SnO2, TiO2, and ZnO are
usually used.13 However, such host materials have
limitations because of the large ionic radii mismatch
between metal ion in semiconductor and rare-earth ion
dopant e.g., Sn4+ in SnO2 has r=0.7 and Eu3+ has
r=0.9 .4 In general, rare-earth ions occupy the
surface of semiconductor particles and do not occupy
the lattice of semiconductor. Due to this, only energy
transfer from semiconductor to rare-earth ion takes
place through surface; thereby it could not improve the
luminescence intensity of rare-earth ion. In addition to
this, concentration-quenching effect occurs even for a
few percentages of rare-earth ions. Such limitations
can be avoided if host and rare-earth ions form solid
solutions. Solid solution is possible only when metal
ions of host and rare-earth ions have similar ionic radii.
In this aspect, Y2O3 , Lu2O3, and Gd2O3 are potential
host materials, which can make solid solutions with
rare earth ions even at large concentration with or
without change in crystal structure.
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3. CONCLUSIONS
1. Phase analysis shows that cubic Gd2O3 was
formed under this condition.
2. The doped samples exhibited a strong emission
band at ~610nm when excited at ~275nm. The
luminescence intensity increased almost linearly
with increasing Eu3+ concentration up to 3% but
then decreased indicating quenching effect at
higher concentration of Eu3+.
REFERENCES
1. http://cnx.org/content/m38357/latest/?colle
ction=col10699/latest
2. ww.nrel.gov/pv/measurements/photolumin
escence_spectroscopy.html
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