Conversão descendente de energia envolvendo íons lantanídeos. Vidros emissores de luz na região de 1000 nm

• Ano de defesa: 2013
• Autor(a) principal: Galleani, Gustavo [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
• Palavras-chave em Português: Química inorgânica; Metais de terras raras; Vidro; Glass
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/108472

Glass light emitting in the IR (1000 nm) region have attracted interest as potential materials for improving the efficiency of commercial silicon solar cell through energy downconversion where a photon in the visible region is converted into two photons in the ~1000 nm, which is the region of band gap of silicon. In this sense, materials doped with lanthanide ions that are very promising due to its spectral richness, has aroused interest in recent years and many pairs of lanthanide ions have been proposed, among then the pair Pr3+:Yb3+, but without any elucidation of the transfer processes involved. This work presents a study in fluoroindate glasses doped with Pr3+ and co-doped with Pr3+ / Yb3+ about the down-conversion energy process Pr3+→Yb3+ and the mechanism involved. The vitreous following compositions were used: [(100-x) 40InF3-20SrF2-20BaF2- 20ZnF2:xPrF3], (x=0,01; 0,02; 0,05 e 1,0 % mol) e [(99-x) 40InF3-20SrF2-20BaF2- 20ZnF2:1PrF3 : xYbF3], (0 ≤ x ≥ 3.0 % mol). The spectroscopic and thermal study of these samples produced by the classical method of melting-quenching showed a good thermal stability against crystallization and window transparency of ~ 8 microns, consequence of the relatively low phonon energy (~500 cm-1) seemed in Raman spectra. Measurements of luminescence in the glasses co-doped with Pr3+: Yb3+ showed the down-conversion process important for application in silicon solar cells due to emission at 1000 nm of Yb3+ as a result of excitation of the Pr3+ ions in the visible region. The downconversion process occurs by at least three mechanisms, in that two of then the emission occurs from 3PJ levels and one from the 1D2 level of Pr3+ ion. Transfer efficiency of 60.8% and 79% were observed for the sample containing 1 mol% Pr3+ and 3 mol% Yb3+. After the excitation of the 3PJ levels energy transfer occurs, where first the energy is transferred to an Yb3+ ion by cross relaxation [Pr3+ (3P0 → 1G4)...