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Optical and EPR investigations of the thermal treatment effects on YVO4 nanocrystals

S. GEORGESCU1,* , E. COTOI1, A. M. VOICULESCU1, O. TOMA1, M. N. GRECU2, E. BORCA3, S. HODOROGEA4

Affiliation

  1. National Institute for Laser, Plasma and Radiation Physics, Magurele, Romania
  2. National Institute for Materials Physics, Magurele, Romania
  3. Faculty of Physics, Bucharest University, Romania
  4. ICPE-CA, Bucharest, Romania

Abstract

YVO4 nanocrystals doped with Eu (5 at.%) or Gd (1 at.%) were synthesized by precipitation method and annealed at various temperatures between 60ºC and 900ºC. The average size (coherence domain) of the YVO4 and nanocrystals, estimated from X-ray diffraction measurements, varies from ~7 nm to ~60 nm, function of the annealing temperature. The morphological transformations produced by thermal treatments in YVO4 nanocrystals were monitored using optical spectroscopy with Eu3+ as probe and EPR spectroscopy, the paramagnetic probe being Gd3+..

Keywords

YVO4, Eu3+, Gd3+, Nanocrystals, Fluorescence, EPR, Optical spectroscopy.

Citation

S. GEORGESCU, E. COTOI, A. M. VOICULESCU, O. TOMA, M. N. GRECU, E. BORCA, S. HODOROGEA, Optical and EPR investigations of the thermal treatment effects on YVO4 nanocrystals, Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials - Rapid Communications, 3, 12, December 2009, pp.1383-1387 (2009).

Submitted at: Nov. 24, 2009

Accepted at: Nov. 23, 2009