Propriedades ópticas de vidros teluretos dopados com íons terras-raras e nanopartículas de ouro

Abstract

In this work we will accomplish the optical characterization of host vitreous, doped with rare-earth ions and nanoparticles of gold, with several compositions, but maintaining as main element the tellurium. Those stencil they are known in the literature as tellurite glasses. We will treat of two groups of samples, in the first we have glasses teluretos with compositions binary, ternary and quaternary doped with ytterbium ions (Yb3+); in the second we have a tellurite glass with ternary composition doped and co-doped with europium ions (Eu3+) and nanopartículas of gold with variations in the time of thermal treatment. A brief summary on all the rare-earth elements, and its common characteristics are presented, and a more detailed presentation focused on Ytterbium and Europium. Also some general properties of glasses, and the effect of the incidence of the electromagnetic radiation on nanoparticles of gold are presented. The applications of tellurite glasses and its importance are also argued. The samples have been characterized by optical techniques such as absorbance, luminescence and lifetime with the objective to investigate the variations that occur for the diverse compositions of the matrices, doped with Yb3+. Radiative times were achieved by means of the simplified form the Judd-Ofelt theory and through experimental measurements. Similar characterization were also made with the doped and co-doped set with Eu3+ and nanoparticles of gold to get the contributions of nanoparticles and thermal time of treatments for the optical properties of the samples. The Judd - Ofelt theory was used to calculate the radiative times of the Eu3+ transitions, obtained from luminescence spectra. This method was initially proposed by Capobianco et al [1]. The reason to use luminescence lineshapes instead of the habitual absorbance spectrum, is that few absorption bands are observed, with sufficient intensity. We verified the influence of nanoparticles in the optical properties of the Europium ions.