Ag nanoparticles enhanced near-IR emission from Er³⁺ ions doped glasses

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• 作者：Jiani Qi ; Tiefeng Xu ; Yi Wu ; Xiang Shen ; Shixun Dai ; Yinsheng Xu
• 关键词：Surface plasmon resonance ; Ag nanoparticles ; Bismuthate glass
• 刊名：Optical Materials
• 出版年：2013
• 出版时间：October, 2013
• 年：2013
• 卷：35
• 期：12
• 页码：2502-2506
• 全文大小：766 K

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Vitreous materials containing rare-earth (RE) ions and metallic nanoparticles (NPs) attract considerable interest because the presence of the NPs may lead to an intensification of luminescence. In this work, the characteristics of 1.54 ¦Ìm luminescence for the Er³⁺ ions doped bismuthate glasses containing Ag NPs were studied under 980 nm excitation. The surface plasmon resonance (SPR) band of Ag NPs appears from 500 to 1500 nm. Transmission electron microscopic (TEM) image reveals that the Ag NPs are dispersed homogeneously with the size from 2 to 7 nm. The strength parameters ¦¸_t(t = 2, 4, 6), spontaneous emission probability (A), radiative lifetime (¦Ó) and stimulated emission section (¦Ò_em) of Er³⁺ ions were calculated by the Judd-Ofelt theory. When the glass contains 0.2 wt % AgCl, the 1.54 ¦Ìm fluorescence intensity of Er³⁺ reaches a maximum value, which is 7.2 times higher than that of glass without Ag NPs. The Ag NPs embedded glasses show significantly fluorescence enhancement of Er³⁺ ions by local field enhancement from SPR.