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Ints ŠTeins
UV-light induced luminescence processes in Al2O3 bulk and nanosize powders
Abstract UV-light induced photoluminescence (PL) and thermoluminescence (TL) have been studied in the alumina (Al2O3) bulk and nanosize powders. It has been found that luminescence properties of the studied alumina powders are determined mainly by presence of the uncontrolled impurities of titanium, iron and chromium. Despite the general similarity of PL characterized by two main emission band around 400 and 750 nm a number of differences has been observed in relative yield and position of the emission bands as well as in the excitation spectrum of the short wavelength band. Essential differences have been observed also in the intensity of the TL signal, TL curves and TL emission spectra re…
Photoluminescence of Al2O3 nanopowders of different phases
Abstract Photoluminescence was studied in six samples of Al2O3 nanopowders produced from the same initial material by calcination in the 800–1400 °C temperature range. At temperature around 1200 °C phase transition in aluminum oxide lattice occurs; the samples produced at temperatures up to 1200 °C contain mainly δ phase, while those obtained at 1400 °C contain pure α phase. In all studied samples of nominally pure aluminum oxide nanopowders photoluminescence is determined by trace level concentrations of uncontrolled impurities. It was found that phase transition is accompanied with modification of the emission spectrum: a broad band centered around 750 nm presumably ascribed to emission o…
Photoluminescence in AlN: macro‐size and nano‐powder
Photoluminescence (PL) properties in AlN are studied when size of polycrystalline grains is reduced from macro-size (AlN ceramics and macro-size powder) to nano-size (nano-powder). It was found that in all these materials within the UV- blue spectral region two PL bands are observed at ∼400 nm (caused by the oxygen-related defects) and at 480 nm (with unknown defect structure) but the ratio of their intensities depends on the grain size. Reduction of AlN grain size results in decrease of the 400 nm band and increase of the 480 nm band. It allows the following conclusions: i) reduction of AlN grain size results in decrease of oxygen (the native impurity of AlN) content in the crystalline lat…
Peculiarities of photoluminescence of Al2O3 bulk and nanosize powders at low temperatures
Abstract Photoluminescence has been studied in the aluminum oxide (Al2O3) bulk and nanosize powders in the 300–8 K temperature range. In both samples luminescence spectrum is characterized by presence of broad blue and red bands caused mainly by emission from the uncontrolled titanium impurity. At low temperatures luminescence intensity increases by several times and the red band obtains fine structure. The nature of the fine structure is discussed suggesting manifestation of splitting of the Ti3+ emitting level due to Jahn–Teller effect or overlapping of Ti3+ emission band with narrow lines from other emitting ions. The observed differences in low-temperature spectral features of nanopowde…
Conductivities and silver electrode polarization resistance of solid electrolyte ceramics from ZrO 2 -Y 2 O 3 powder synthesized in air plasma
Ceramic specimens have been obtained from the powder of ZrO2-7.5 mol% Y2O3 having a specific surface area of 30 m2/g synthesized in air plasma. The novelty of this research lies in the fact that the plasma process makes it possible to prepare so-called nanopowders with a particle size less than 100 nm, possessing specific physical, chemical and technological properties. The sintered density of the specimens was 94–96% of the theoretical value, 6.001 g/cm3. The X-ray diffraction pattern of the specimens corresponded to a face-centered cubic lattice. Impedance in the frequency range of 100 Hz–15 MHz and d.c. polarization curves in a potential range of −10 to 10 mV were measured in the tempera…
Spectral characterization of bulk and nanostructured aluminum nitride
Spectral characteristics including photoluminescence (PL) spectra and its excitation spectra for different AlN materials (AlN ceramics, macro size powder and nanostructured forms such as nanopowder, nanorods and nanotips) were investigated at room temperature. Besides the well known UV-blue (around 400 nm) and red (600 nm) luminescence, the 480 nm band was also observed as an asymmetric long-wavelength shoulder of the UV-blue PL band. This band can be related to the luminescence of some kind of surface defects, probably also including the oxygen-related defects. The mechanisms of recombination luminescence and excitation of the UV-blue luminescence caused by the oxygen-related defects were …
Raman scattering in nanosized nickel oxide NiO
Magnetic ordering in nanosized (100 and 1500 nm) nickel oxide NiO powders, prepared by the plasma synthesis method, was studied using Raman scattering spectroscopy in a wide range of temperatures from 10 to 300 K. It was observed that the intensity of two- magnon band decreases rapidly for smaller crystallites size. This effect is attributed to a decrease of antiferromagnetic spin correlations and leads to the antiferromagnetic-to- paramagnetic phase transition .