Investigation on crystallization kinetics and microstructure of novel transparent glass ceramics containing Nd:NaYF4 nano-crystals

Variation of luminescence properties of Na2O–CaO–SiO2: Nd3+ glass with crystallinity

“…Rapp [11], Dymnikov [12], Kang [13], Loiseau [14] and Nash [15] reported the luminescence properties of Nd 3+ doped nanocrystalline oxide glass-ceramics. Samson [16], Pisarska [17], and Liu [18] studied the optical properties of Nd 3+ doped nanocrystalline oxyfluoride glass-ceramics.…”

Sol–gel transparent nano-glass–ceramics containing Eu3+-doped NaYF4 nanocrystals

“…In recent papers, up-conversion processes have been analyzed in transparent nano-glass-ceramics containing Er 3+ -and Nd 3+ -doped cubic and hexagonal NaYF 4 nanocrystals [18][19][20]. It would be remarked that these glass-ceramics were synthesized by conventional melting technique at 1450°C.…”

Crystallization kinetics and enhanced Bi NIR luminescence of transparent silicate glass‐ceramics containing Sr2YbF7 nanocrystals

“…The fit produces E c =240.77 kJ/mol and K 0 =1.95 9 10 11 s À1 (see Table 1). The activation energy for crystallization is smaller than 308 kJ/mol for NaYF 4,15 338 kJ/mol for LaF 3 , 25 and 591.9 kJ/mol for BaF 2 26 in precipitated in silicate glasses.…”

“…Approaches which can improve the efficiency are essential to promote the practical applications. It is well-known that glass-ceramics [11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21] can hybridize glass and crystal, and it usually exhibits better optical properties than either glass [3][4][5][6] or crystal. 7 This motivates us to start the project on bismuth-doped glass-ceramics.…”