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INFRARED PHYSICS & TECHNOLOGY
Volume 71, Issue -, Pages 159-162Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.infrared.2015.03.002
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Chalcogenide glasses; Downconversion; Rare earth ions
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [61205181, 61307060]
- Scientific Research Foundation for the Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars, State Education Ministry
- K.C. Wong Magna Fund in Ningbo University
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Near-infrared downconversion which can be used to improve the utilization of solar spectral has drawn much attention. In this work, chalcohalide glasses with compositions of 50GeS(2)-25Ga(2)S(3)-25CsCl (in mol.%): 0.1 wt.% Tm-2 S-3 - x wt.% Yb2S3 (x = 0, 0.1, 0.2, 0.3) were synthesized by vacuumed melt-quenching method. Absorption spectra, emission spectra, excitation spectra, and decay measurements were performed to prove the occurrence of cooperative energy transfer from the (1)G(4) level of Tm3+ ions to two Yb3+ ions. Quantum efficiency depends on Yb3+ concentration is calculated, and the highest is 114.1%. The photon energy of Yb3+ emission around 1 mu m well matched with the operation band gap of the crystalline Si, so the glasses could potentially be applied in Si-based solar cell. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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