Luminescence Characteristics of Li2O3:Gd2O3:B2O3:Dy2O3 Glasses System

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Melt quenching technique have been used to prepare the dysprosium-doped lithium-gadolinium borate glasses, which have the composition [60Li2O:10Gd2O3:(30-x) B2O3:xDy2O3] (LGBO:Dy3+), under atmospheric pressure. Some properties: density, molar volume, absorption spectra and photoluminescence of the LGBO:Dy3+ glasses were investigated and discussed. The density of glasses drops to the minimum point at 0.05 mol% and swings after that point. The molar volume of the glasses does not depend on Dy2O3 concentration. In absorption spectra for the range of visible to near infrared wavelengths, there are 5 obvious peaks indicating the Dy3+ in glass network. The intensity of each peak at certain wavelength increases with concentration of the Dy2O3. Whereas the excitation spectra show 7 obvious peaks representing the transitions from the ground state 6H15/2 to various excited states. The Xenon compact arc lamps were used to measure the emission spectra with 388 nm light. As the result, the LGBO:Dy3+ glass sample with 0.50 mol% of Dy3+ shows the highest intensity in the emission spectra.

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