УДК: 535.015

Synthesizing erbium and ytterbium oxide nanoparticles and obtaining luminescent polymeric composites based on them

Denisyuk, I.Y., Burunkova, Y.E., Sobeshchuk, N.O., Zakharov, V.V., Veniaminov, A.V.

Publication in Journal of Optical Technology

For Russian citation (Opticheskii Zhurnal):

Денисюк И.Ю., Бурункова Ю.Э., Собещук Н.О., Захаров В.В., Вениаминов А.В. Синтез наночастиц оксида эрбия и иттербия и получение люминесцирующих полимерных композитов на их основе // Оптический журнал. 2014. Т. 81. № 11. С. 82–87.

Denisyuk I.Yu., Burunkova Yu.E., Sobeshchuk N.O., Zakharov V.V., Veniaminov A.V. Synthesizing erbium and ytterbium oxide nanoparticles and obtaining luminescent polymeric composites based on them [in Russian] // Opticheskii Zhurnal. 2014. V. 81. № 11. P. 82–87.

For citation (Journal of Optical Technology):

I. Yu. Denisyuk, Yu. É. Burunkova, N. O. Sobeshchuk, V. V. Zakharov, and A. V. Veniaminov, "Synthesizing erbium and ytterbium oxide nanoparticles and obtaining luminescent polymeric composites based on them," Journal of Optical Technology. 81(11), 681-685 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1364/JOT.81.000681

Abstract:

This paper presents the results of a study of methods of synthesizing erbium and ytterbium oxide nanoparticles, formed on the surface of silicon nanoparticles by low- and high-temperature methods of synthesis. The technology thus developed is based on a method for obtaining nanoparticles of the rare-earth elements by thermally decomposing their salts in a medium of polyhydric alcohols at a temperature above the boiling point of water, allowing oxide nanoparticles to be obtained with no impurity in hydrate form. This method makes it possible to carry out nonaqueous synthesis at temperatures no higher than 250°C, and this maintains the nanoparticles at their original size without agglomeration. When the resulting nanoparticles were introduced into a photopolymerizable monomeric composite, a transparent nanocomposite material was obtained that could be used to form integrated-optics erbium amplifiers.

Keywords:

luminescent nanoparticles synthesis, nanocomposite, erbium oxide, ytterbium oxide, silicone oxide nanoparticles

OCIS codes: 160.2540, 160.5690, 160.4236

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