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JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS
Volume 107, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.3431347
Keywords
europium; germanate glasses; gold; magnetic transitions; nanoparticles; photoluminescence; radiation quenching; rare earth metals; silver
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- Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico (CNPq) through the National Institute of Photonics
- Fundacao de Amparo a Ciencia e Tecnologia do Estado de Pernambuco (FACEPE)
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Luminescence properties of Eu3+ doped germanate glasses containing either silver or gold nanoparticles (NPs) were investigated for excitation at 405 nm. Enhanced emissions and luminescence quenching of the Eu3+ transitions in the range from 570 to 720 nm were observed for samples having various concentrations of metallic NPs. Electric-dipole and magnetic-dipole transitions that originate from the Eu3+ level D-5(0) exhibit large enhancement due to the presence of the metallic NPs. The results suggest that the magnetic response of rare-earth doped metal-dielectric composites at optical frequencies can be as strong as their electric response due to the confinement of the optical magnetic field. (C) 2010 American Institute of Physics. [doi:10.1063/1.3431347]
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