Sarkar, Jit and Tarafder, Anal and Karmakar, Basudeb (2015) Processing and Characterization of In-Situ Generated Nanosilver and Er3+ Co-Doped Bromoborosilicate Glass Nanocomposites. Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology , 15 (9). pp. 6582-6591. ISSN 1533-4880

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Abstract

In the present investigation, bromoborosilicate glass of composition 6Na(2)O-19K(2)O-10BaBr(2)- 2Al(2)O(3)-15B(2)O(3)-48SiO(2) (mole %) added with 0.2 wt% SnO, co-doped with 0.001 wt% Ag and 0.7 wt% Er2O3 in excess amount, was prepared by melt-quench technique. The metal-glass nanocomposites were derived involving a single-step in-situ thermochemical reduction of the precursor glass subjecting an isothermal heat-treatment protocol. The precursor glass and metal glass nanocomposites were characterized by dilatometer, differential scanning calorimeter, X-ray diffractometer, field emission scanning, electron microscope, transmission electron microscope, Fourier transform infrared spectrometer, UV-Vis-NIR spectrophotometer, fluorimeter etc. XRD spectra represent the amorphous nature of the samples and without having any sharp peaks of silver (Ag-0) and barium bromide (BaBr2). But the FESEM micrograph shows the presence of BaBr2 crystallites in clusters and the TEM micrograph shows the presence of Ag-0 nanoparticles of different shapes and sizes. The precursor glass sample shows sharp absorption peak at 378 nm and 521 nm due to the (4)G(11/2) and H-2(11/2) energy levels of Er3+ but glass nanocomposites exhibit another band at 410 nm due to the surface plasmon resonance of Ag-0 nanoparticles. They also show sharp emission peak at 1542 nm due to 4 vertical bar(15/2) -> (4)vertical bar(13/2) transition of Er3+ ions and prominent upconverted peaks at 630 nm (red, medium) and 645 nm (red, strong) due to F-4(9/2) -> (4)vertical bar(15/2) transition. The intensity of the absorption and upconverted peaks increases with the duration of heat treatment, having maximum intensity at 5 h and the intensity of the emission peak increases with heat treatment upto 1 h and then decreases for 5 h. Thus these metal-glass nanocomposites show enhanced photoluminescence upconversion and are promising material for different photonic applications.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	Glass
Divisions:	Glass
Depositing User:	Bidhan Chaudhuri
Date Deposited:	11 Jan 2016 09:02
Last Modified:	11 Jan 2016 09:02
URI:	http://cgcri.csircentral.net/id/eprint/3129

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