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Infrared emission and defect centres in Er and Yb codoped Y3Al5O12 phosphors

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YAG phosphor powders doped/codoped with Er3+/(Er3+ + Yb3+) have been synthesised by using the solution combustion method. The effect of direct pumping into the 4I11/2 level under 980 nm excitation of doped/codoped Er3+/Yb3+−Er3+ in Y3Al5O12 (YAG) phosphor responsible for an infrared (IR) emission peaking at ∼1.53 μm corresponding to the 4I13/2→4I15/2 transition has been studied. YAG exhibits three thermally-stimulated luminescence (TSL) peaks at around 140°C, 210°C and 445°C. Electron spin resonance (ESR) studies were carried out to identify the centres responsible for the TSL peaks. The room temperature ESR spectrum of irradiated phosphor appears to be a superposition of two distinct centres. One of the centres (centre I) with principal g-value 2.0176 is identified as O− ion, while centre II with an isotropic g-factor 2.0020 is assigned to an F+ centre (singly ionised oxygen vacancy). An additional defect centre is observed during thermal-annealing experiments and this centre (assigned to F+ centre) seems to originate from an F-centre (oxygen vacancy with two electrons) and these two centres appear to correlate with the observed high-temperature TSL peak in YAG phosphor.

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    Vijay Singh & Ho-Young Kwak

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    Vineet Kumar Rai

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Singh, V., Rai, V.K., Watanabe, S. et al. Infrared emission and defect centres in Er and Yb codoped Y3Al5O12 phosphors. Appl. Phys. A 100, 1123–1130 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-010-5713-1

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