Propriedades ópticas de materiais híbridos de sílica dopados com nanocristais de CdSe/ZnS

• Ano de defesa: 2014
• Autor(a) principal: Alencar, Lorena Dariane da Silva [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
• Palavras-chave em Português: Physical optics; Fisica otica; Silica - propriedades óticas; Nanocristais; Processo sol-gel; Luminescencia
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/108583

Organically Modified Silicates (ORMOSIL) have been object of study due to the variety of the organically functionalized alkoxides (epoxy, vinyl, phenyl, etc). This allows the production of new hybrid silica materials with adjustable properties depending on the organic molecule linked to silica. The study of the properties of CdSe/ZnS core-shell nanocrystals embedded in GPTS/TEOS-derived organic/silica hybrids is of high interest due the optical and mechanical properties which can be controlled from the synthesis, producing multifunctional materials. This work aims the study of the optical properties measured in situ of CdSe/ZnS nanocrystals embedded in organic/silica hybrid colloids prepared by sol-gel technique derived from 3-glycidoxypropyltrimethoxysilane (GPTS) and tetraethylorthosilicate (TEOS). Doped organic/silica hybrid matrices were characterized by optical spectroscopy (absorption and photoluminescence) and thermo-optical spectroscopy (thermal lens). CdSe/ZnS nanocrystals with three different core sizes (~2 -5 nm) and emission band centered at 525, 560 and 615 nm (green, orange and red, respectively) were studied embedded in the hybrid matrix. The optical characterizations were performed in-situ in the matrix from the initial sol and during the gelation kinetics (transition from sol to gel). During the gelation kinetics started by NH4OH addition, an intensity decrease of the nanocrystals photoluminescence was observed during the sol to gel transition, achieving minimum photoluminescence intensity exactly at the matrix gel point with subsequent blue shift and accentuated photoluminescence intensity increase related to the matrix consolidation. Through the optical absorption spectra it was possible to determine the variation in the energy gap of the samples during the kinetics of gelation. TL transient measurements were performed using the mode-mismatched dual-beam configuration to study the effect of the CdSe/ZnS embedded in...