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Er3+-doped Polyether/siloxane Hybrid Materials for Optoelectronics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2011

S. C. Nunes
Affiliation:
Departamento de Química and CQ-VR, Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, 5001–911. Vila Real Codex, Portugal
V. de Zea Bermudez
Affiliation:
Departamento de Química and CQ-VR, Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, 5001–911. Vila Real Codex, Portugal
R. A. Sá Ferreira
Affiliation:
Departamento de Física and CICECO, Universidade de Aveiro, 3810–193 Aveiro, Portugal
L. D. Carlos
Affiliation:
Departamento de Física and CICECO, Universidade de Aveiro, 3810–193 Aveiro, Portugal
E. Morales
Affiliation:
Instituto de Ciencia y Tecnología de Polímeros (CSIC), 28006 Madrid, Spain
P. V. S. Marques
Affiliation:
Departamento de Física, INESC-Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto, 4169–007 Porto, Portugal
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Abstract

The sol-gel method was employed to obtain poly(oxyethylene) (POE)/siloxane hybrids (di-ureasils) doped with erbium triflate (Er(CF3SO3)3). The host hybrid matrix employed is composed of a siliceous framework to which short POE chains are covalently bonded through urea linkages (-NH(C(=O)NH-). Xerogels with ∞ > n ≥ 5 (where n, salt composition, is the molar ratio of OCH2CH2 moieties per Er ion) were analyzed. Samples with n ≥ 20 are amorphous. Those with n > 20 are thermally stable up to about 325 °C. In the di-ureasils proposed, the Er ions are active at room temperature (RT). Concentration effects on the quenching of the 1.53 mm emission intensity (excited at 488 nm) are negligible.

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2005

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