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Er-Yb waveguide amplifiers in novel silicate glasses

A set of novel silicate glasses containing ZnO and co-doped with Er3+ and Yb3+ was designed as substrates for optical waveguide amplifiers. Characterized by exceptionally low up-conversion, minimum Er concentration quenching and high mechanical as well as ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2008

Remarkable Tuning of the Photophysical Properties of Bifunctional Lanthanide tris(Dipicolinates) and its Consequence on the Design of Bioprobes

Jean-Claude Bünzli, Anne-Sophie Chauvin, Anne-Laure Gassner, Céline Rita Duhot

Derivatives of dipicolinic acid with a polyoxyethylene pendant arm at the pyridine 4-position have been functionalized for potential grafting with biological material. Four ligands with different terminal functions (alcohol, methoxy, phtalimide and amine) ...

2008

Surface and Mirror Twin Grain Boundary Segregation in Nd:YAG: An Atomistic Simulation Study

Paul Bowen, Ulrich Aschauer

Ceramic lasers have advantages such as better optical homogeneity, cheaper production, and more freedom in shape compared with monocrystalline lasers. However, equal or better laser performances are required. Interface segregation is important as ceramics ...

2008

Microstructure of (Na0.5La0.5)MoO4 crystals coactivated with cerium and erbium ions

Elena Suvorova Buffat

Crystals with the scheelite structure have been grown by the Czochralski technique from a melt of composition (Na0.5La0.345Ce0.15Er0.005) MoO4 (NLM: Ce, Er) and have been characterized by scanning and transmission electron microscopy and x-ray microanalysi ...

2007

A PCP-Pincer RuII-Terpyridine Building Block as a Potential "Antenna Unit" for Intramolecular Sensitization

André Merbach

The redox- and photoactive mononuclear complex [Ru(PCP)(tpy-DTTANa4)]Cl {PCP = [C6H3(CH2PPh2)2-2,6]-; tpy-DTTA4- = 4'-(2,2':6',2''-terpyridine)-diethylenetriamine-N,N,N'',N''-tetraacetate} possesses an externally directed, vacant N3O4 polyaminocarboxylate- ...

2007

Instability of Ag nanoparticles in SiO2 at ambient conditions

Giulia Di Domenicantonio, Olivier Eugster

The room temperature stability of nanometer-sized silver clusters in silica matrices has been investigated by following the temporal evolution of their surface plasmon absorption. Ag clusters in SiO2 were prepared by either annealing silica samples doped w ...

2007

A thermodynamic model for the precipitation of nanostructured copper oxalates

Heinrich Hofmann, Paul Bowen, Jacques Lemaître, Lucica Soare

A thermodynamic model is developed for the precipitation of copper oxalate from aqueous solutions of copper nitrate and sodium oxalate in a small well-mixed batch reactor. This model is then used to explain the discrepancy between experimental pH evolution ...

2006

Lanthanide-containing luminescent molecular edifices

The first part of this short review focuses on the insertion of luminescent lanthanide ions into molecular compounds. The main requirements for the development of highly luminescent chelates with potential applications in biomedical analysis and time-resol ...

2006

Taking advantage of luminescent lanthanide ions

Lanthanide ions possess fascinating optical properties and their discovery, first industrial uses and present high technological applications are largely governed by their interaction with light. Lighting devices (economical luminescent lamps, light emitti ...

2005

The role of second coordination-sphere interactions in incommensurately modulated structures, using beta-K5Yb( MoO4)(4) as an example

Gervais Chapuis, Alla Arakcheeva

The incommensurate palmierite-like structure of beta-K5Yb(MoO4)(4), potassium ytterbium tetramolydate, has been refined in the (3 + 1)- dimensional monoclinic superspace group X2/m(0 rho 0) 00, with X = [0 0 0 0; 1/2 1/2 0 0; 0 0 1/2 1/2; 1/2 1/2 1/2 1/2] ...

2005

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