LUMINESCENCE QUANTUM EFFICIENCY OF +3

Nd DOPED
PHOSPHATE GLASSES IN FUNCTION OF TEMPERATURE
Universidade Federal de Uberlândia Universidade Federal de Uberlândia

José C. Filho1, Pâmela Z. Ferreira1, Sidney A. Lourenço2, Viviane Pilla1, Djalmir N. Messias1, Anielle C. Almeida Silva3, Noelio O.
Dantas3 and Acácio A. Andrade1*
1Grupo de Propriedades Ópticas e Térmicas de Materiais (GPOTM), Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia. CP 593, 38400-902, Uberlândia – MG, Brazil.
2Departamento de Física, Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, 86036-370, Londrina – PR, Brazil.
3Laboratório de Novos Materiais Isolantes e Semicondutores (LNMIS), Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, CP 593, 38400-902, Uberlândia – MG, Brazil.

1- Abstract 4- Results
Phosphate glasses have been studied for showing great optics and thermal properties. These 320 3+ 1.06
PANK: Nd
glasses have high fluorescence lifetime in the metastable level (4F3/2) and quantum efficiency 298
348
K
K (c)

Fluorescence Lifetime (s)

when doped with neodymium. However, these studies are in general carried out at room 0 393 K 1.05
280   n 423 K
1  N Q  (b)
temperature. In this work the normalized lifetime thermal lens technique was applied to a set 438 K

Normalized TL signal
1.04
of Nd-doped phosphate glass samples to detect its luminescence quantum efficiency in 240 (a)

Luminescence Intensity (a.u.)

25

I11/2
PANK + 3.0Nd 2 O 3 (wt%)
function of temperature. Decays were observed on the luminescence quantum efficiency for 1.03

4
20  e xc : 514.5 nm
T = 300 K

F3/2
different temperature regions. This behavior was ascribed to thermally activated energy levels.

I9/2
200 15
PANK + 4Nd2O3 (wt%)

4
4
1.02

I13/2
10

F3/2

4
I9/2
4

F3/2
5
160 1.01

F5/2

4
(c) T = 438 K

4
0
(b) T = 348 K
2- Samples 900 1050
W avelength (nm)
1200 1350 1500
1.00
Experimental data
Theoritical fit (a) T = 298 K
120
0.0 0.5 1.0 1.5 2.0 2.5 0.00 0.03 0.06 0.09 0.12 0.15 0.18 0.21
3+ 20 3
Samples were synthesized by using the fusion method. The nominal composition of the Nd (10 ions/cm ) Time (s)

phosphate glass matrices is 40P2O5. 20Al2O3 . 35Na2O . 5K2O (in mol%), herein quoted as Fig. 2 - Fluorescence lifetime as a function of Nd-doped Fig. 3 - TL signal for PANK doped with 4% Nd3+ ions at
PANK glass matrix. Reagent grade powder of P2O5 (99.9%), Al2O3 (99.5%), Na2CO3 (99.5%) concentration in PANK glass sample at different 298 K, 348 K and 438 K. The red lines represent the
and K2CO3 (99%) were used as raw materials and purchased from the Sigma-Aldrich temperatures. The solid lines represent fits with equation theoretical fit.
in the graph and the inset presents the emission spectrum
Chemical Company. Powder mixtures were melted into porcelain crucibles in a rich carbon at room.
atmosphere at 1350 oC for 30 min. Afterwards, the melts were rapidly cooled between
graphite plates in an oven at 250 oC. The resulting platelets were heated at 350 oC for 48 hours 
to remove internal stresses. The matrix was doped with xNd2O3 (wt%) (x = 2; 3; 4 and 6). The 1.8 1.0
PANK + Nd2O3 (wt%)

Luminescence Quantum Efficiency ()

3+
final step was a fine polishing to obtain optical quality. PANK:Nd
298 K
T = 298 K 0.8 348 K
393 K
1.6
413 K
438 K
3– Normalized Lifetime Thermal Lens Technique 0.6
(W )
-1

1.4
0.4

Experimental data 0.2

1.2
Theoritical fit
(B)
0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 1.0
0.0
2 3 4 5 6

1.0
Concentration Nd2O3 (wt%)
Fig. 4 - Θ parameter versus Γ at 298 K for PANK Fig. 5 - Luminescence quantum efficiency as a function
doped glasses. of Nd2O3 concentration. Colorful lines are only guides
for the eyes.
2 3
1.0
Luminescence Quantum Efficiency (

PANK + xNd2O3 (wt%)

x=2%
0.8 x=3%
x=4%
x=6%
5- Conclusion
0.6

0.4
In summary, the normalized lifetime thermal lens technique was
applied to a set of Nd-doped phosphate samples PANK in order to
0.2 obtain its fluorescence quantum efficiency in function of
313 K 393 K temperature. Ours results show a fast decay in the luminescence
Fig. 1 - Schematic diagram of the time resolved TL experimental setup for different quantum efficiency in two different temperature regions, between
0.0
temperatures. 293 K and 313 K and after 393 K. These decays were ascribed to
300 325 350 375 400 425 450
thermally activated energy levels that increased the non-radiate
Temperature (K)
2 decay rates of the Nd emitter levels. This hypothesis is supported by
   Fig. 6 - Luminescence quantum efficiency as a Raman spectroscopic measurements.
   
I (t )  I (0)1  tan 1  2mV     ( PAe Leff k p ) ds dT function of temperature. Colorful lines are only guides
2 tc
 2




1  2m   V
2
 2t
 1  2m  V 2



for the eyes.

1 N
  1   (exc  ) em N  R  R
R


PAe Leff
 
 C 1   R em1 exc  
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