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Controlled synthesis of ytterbium ion and erbium ion codoped gadolinium oxyfluoride hollow nanosphere with upconversion luminescence property

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2013

Yu Wang ,
Tong Liu ,
Xuesi Wang  and
Hongwei Song
Yu Wang*
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of Inorganic Synthesis and Preparative Chemistry, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, People’s Republic of China
Tong Liu
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory on Integrated Optoelectronics, College of Electronic Science and Engineering, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, People’s Republic of China
Xuesi Wang
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory on Integrated Optoelectronics, College of Electronic Science and Engineering, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, People’s Republic of China
Hongwei Song*
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory on Integrated Optoelectronics, College of Electronic Science and Engineering, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, People’s Republic of China
*
a)Address all correspondence to these authors. e-mail: wangyu@jlu.edu.cn
b)e-mail: hwsong2005@yahoo.com.cn
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Abstract

Uniform ytterbium ion and erbium ion codoped gadolinium oxyfluoride (GdOF: Yb3+, Er3+) hollow nanospheres of 100-nm diameter were synthesized via the nanoscale Kirkendall approach, using colloidal nanospheres of ytterbium ion and erbium ion codoped gadolinium hydroxide [Gd(OH)3: Yb3+, Er3+] as sacrificial templates and titanium tetrafluoride as fluorine source under hydrothermal condition. The shell thickness of the as-synthesized GdOF: Yb3+, Er3+ hollow nanospheres can be facilely tuned from 31 to 13 nm by controlling reaction temperature and reaction time. The upconversion emission color could be adjusted from red to yellow to green when the host lattices variedfrom gadolinium (III) oxide to gadolinium oxyfluoride to gadolinium fluoride. Furthermore, the formation mechanism of the hollow GdOF: Yb3+, Er3+ nanospheres was found to depend on the fluorine source.

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nanostructureluminescencelanthanide
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Journal of Materials Research , Volume 28 , Issue 6 , 28 March 2013 , pp. 848 - 855
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2013

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