1. 2010.03.19 指導教授：林克默 學 生：陳立偉 1

2. 1. Introduction Recently,the interest in up-conversion emission has been increased due to the needs for all-solid compact laser devices operating in the blue-green region and the availability of powerful nearinfrared GaAs/(Al, Ga) as laser diodes that can be used in such systems. Some rare earth doped BaTiO 3 films have been prepared, their structural, physicochemical, optimization, characterization, understanding of luminescence, optical up-conversion mechanisms, and the size effects were investigated and lasing emissions have also been studied. 2

3. 2. Experimental Barium acetate (Ba(Ac) 2 ) (99%, Sisco Research Laboratories PVT.LTD, India) and titanium butoxide (Ti(C 4 H 9 O) 4 ), were used as the starting materials; acetyl acetone (AcAc, C 5 H 8 O 2 ), acetic acid (HAc)- H 2 O mixture were adopted as solvents of (Ti(C 4 H 9 O) 4 ), and Ba(Ac) 2, respectively. Er (NO 3 )3-H 2 O and Yb (NO 3 )3-H 2 O, olutions were added to the precursor with different molar ratios. The solutions were kept in air at room temperature, yielding transparent solutions. Dry gels obtained by baking the gel at 130 ℃, were sintered at heat treatment temperature 750 ℃ for 1h, in a muffle furnace type. 3

4. Spin coating sol–gel method.The same solutions used in preparing the powder samples were filtered through filter paper and remained stable for 4 days. The final solutions were stirred for another hour before spin coating. All operations were performed at room temperature. Solutions were dispersed on the silica glass substrate and then spun at 6000 rev/min for 30 s. At least 15 successive coatings were required to provide suitable film thicknesses. Thin film amples were annealed in air in a conventional oven and sintered at 750 ℃ for 1h. 4

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6. 6 Fig. 1 XRD patterns of A pure powder nano-structure BT and B BT doped with diff. conc of Er 3+ ions (a) (BT1E), (b) (BT3E) and (c) (BT5E), sintered at 750 ℃ for 1h

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8. 8 Fig. 3 The XRD patterns of BaTiO 3 co-doped with constant concentration at 4% for Er 3+ ions and different concentrations of Yb 3+ ions, (a) BT4E1Y, (b) BT4E3Y and (c) BT4E5Y Fig. 2 The XRD patterns for 3% Er 3+ : BaTiO 3 and JCPDS files for BaTiO 3 and BaCO 3

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10. 10 Fig. 5 XRD patterns of BaTiO 3 thin film co-doped with 1% Er 3+ and 3% Yb 3+ (BT1E3YTF), prepared by sol–gel technique and sintered at 750 ℃ for 1h

11. 11 Fig. 6 Up-conversion emission spectra (under 808 nm excitation) from (a) (BT1E), (b) (BT3E), (c) (BT4E), (d) (BT5E), (e) (BT15E), powder, prepared by sol–gel technique, sintered at 750 ℃ for 1 h Fig. 7 Up-conversion emission spectra (under 808 nm excitation) from (a) (BT2ETF), (b) (BT4ETF) and (c) (BT5ETF) thin film, prepared by spin coating sol–gel technique, sintered at 750 ℃ for 1 h

12. 12 Fig. 8 Schematic diagram of the electronic levels of Er 3+ ions incorporated into BT in powder and thin film forms, showing the exited state absorption (a) and the energy transfer (ET) (b) processes for the up-conversion emissions under 808 nm excitations

13. 13 Fig. 9 Up-conversion emission spectra (under 808 nm excitation) for powder samples (a) BT4E1Y, (b) BT4E2Y, (c) BT4E4Y, and (d) BT4E5Y Fig. 10 Up-conversion emission spectra (under 808 nm excitation) for (a) BT4E2YTF, (b) BT4E4YTF and (c) BT4E5YTF thin films, prepared by spin coating sol–gel technique, sintered at 750 ℃ for 1 h

14. 14 Fig. 11 Schematic diagram of the electronic levels of Er 3+ : Yb 3+ ions co-doped into BT in powder and thin film forms. The solid lines arrows indicate the emission transitions for Er 3+ ion. The wavy lines represent the non-radiative process. The dash dot lines represent the absorption transition for the Er 3+ and Yb 3+ ions. The process (A) represent excitation through energy transfer while (B) represents excitation through excited state absorption

15. 4. Conclusion Pure BT powder and co-doped with Er 3+ and Yb 3+ ions, were successfully synthesized via sol gel technique. Sintering of the thin film and powder samples at 750 ℃ for 1 h resulted in tetragonal phases Crystallite sizes were found to be dependent on the concentrations of erbium It is clearly seen that the thin film has sharper up- conversion emission band than the powder sample by doping them by Er 3+ ions and co-doped them by Er 3+ and Yb 3+ ions. 15

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