Code
31517408
Duration
01 January 2008 → 31 December 2010
Funding
Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Promotor
Research disciplines
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Natural sciences
- Condensed matter physics and nanophysics
Keywords
thermal quenching
energy transfer
rare earth elements
persistent luminescence
cryostat
luminescence
Project description
On this project, a helium contact gas cryostat with a temprature range from 4 to 500K is purchased. This cryostat will be used to study the different itneractions that can occur between dopant (more specifically broad band emitting rare earth elements such as Eu2+ and Ce3+) and host matrix, among which the thermal quenching behaviour, persistent luminescence, energy transfer between lattice sites, anomalous red-shifted emission, …