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Greatly enhanced broadband near-infrared emission due to energy transfer from Cr3+ to Ni2+ in transparent magnesium aluminosilicate glass ceramics

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Cr3+/Ni2+ co-doped optically transparent magnesium aluminosilicate glass-ceramics containing MgAl2O4 nanocrystals have been prepared by heat-treatment. Greatly enhanced broadband near-infrared emission centered at 1216 nm in Cr3+/Ni2+ co-doped glass ceramics is observed when compared with the Ni2+ single-doped glass ceramics under 532 nm excitation. The observed enhancement of infrared emission is attributed to the energy transfer from Cr3+ to Ni2+ ions in the nanocrystalline phase, which leads to the emission due to 3T2(3F) → 3A2(3F) transition of octahedral Ni2+ ions.

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This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science foundation of China (Grant No. 50872123), the National Basic Research Program of China (2006CB806000b), and Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University (IRT0651).

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    Jin Luo, Shifeng Zhou, Hucheng Yang, Song Ye, Bin Zhu & Jianrong Qiu

  2. State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 201800, People’s Republic of China

    Botao Wu & Jianrong Qiu

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Luo, J., Zhou, S., Wu, B. et al. Greatly enhanced broadband near-infrared emission due to energy transfer from Cr3+ to Ni2+ in transparent magnesium aluminosilicate glass ceramics. Journal of Materials Research 24, 310–315 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1557/JMR.2009.0068

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