Villanueva Delgado, Pedro (2016). UPCONVERSION IN beta-NaYF4: Yb3+, Tm3+: SYNTHESIS, EXPERIMENTS, AND MODELS. (Dissertation, Departement für Chemie und Biochemie, Science)
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The scientific method has enabled us to understand some of the deepest
questions about ourselves and the world that surrounds us. The
application of this method to all natural phenomena—the scientific
endeavor—is one of the most important collective undertakings in
the history of our species. This PhD thesis is merely a tiny step forward
in this enterprise that now unites millions of people worldwide.
Out of all scientific knowledge, this thesis concentrates on materials
science; that is, how to create materials, what properties they
have and, very importantly, why. From all possible materials and behaviors,
this work studies certain optical properties of the insulator
ceramic b-NaYF4. Its color and photoluminescence change dramatically
when this material is impurified with specific elements, the rare
earths; the study of these changes is the main focus of this thesis.
In order to understand those changes in the luminescence, a microscopic
model has been developed. It considers the absorption, emission,
and transfer of energy between ions in a sample of a given crystallographic
lattice and dopant concentration. Experimental measurements
on low doped samples provide most of the model’s parameters.
The experimentally inaccessible internal energy transfer parameters
can be fit to experimental data, and thus, the nature and strength of
those processes can be discovered.
Item Type: |
Thesis (Dissertation) |
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Division/Institute: |
08 Faculty of Science > Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences (DCBP) |
UniBE Contributor: |
Villanueva Delgado, Pedro, Krämer, Karl |
Subjects: |
500 Science > 530 Physics 500 Science > 540 Chemistry |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Karl Krämer |
Date Deposited: |
10 Jan 2017 13:00 |
Last Modified: |
05 Dec 2022 14:59 |
BORIS DOI: |
10.7892/boris.90446 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/90446 |
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