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Project

Study of temperature dependent dopant-host lattice interactions in rare earth doped, luminescent materials
Code
31517408
Duration
01 January 2008 → 31 December 2010
Funding
Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Research disciplines
  • 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, …