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Tunable multicolour emission from dysprosium-doped mixed rare-earths oxyorthosilicate nanophosphors for application in ultraviolet-pumped multicolour and white light emitting diodes
(University of the Free State, 2015-02)
Phosphors have many uses today in applications such as electronic information displays, solid state lighting, solar cells, advertising and theft prevention. By using urea-assisted solution combustion method, we prepared ...
Luminescence properties of Y2O3:Bi3+ as powder and thin film phosphor for solar cell application
(University of the Free State, 2015-07)
The luminescent properties of the bismuth doped yttrium oxide (Y2-xO3:Bix) phosphor material
was investigated as a powder and as thin films for possible application as a down-conversion
material for solar cells. The goal ...
Luminescence investigations of CaS:Eu2+ powder and pulsed laser deposited thin films for application in light emitting diodes
(University of the Free State, 2015-06)
The main objective of this thesis was to investigate the luminescent properties of commercial CaS:Eu2+ powder and pulsed laser deposited thin films for application in light emitting diodes. X-ray diffraction (XRD), X-ray ...
Sol-gel synthesis of and luminescent properties of Pr³⁺ in different host matrices
(University of the Free State, 2009-11)
Luminescent ZrO2:Pr3+ , SiO2:Pr3+, ZnO:Pr3+ and ZnS:Pr3+ nanophosphors were synthesized by a sol-gel method, dried, ground and annealed in air at 600oC (SiO2:Pr3+, ZrO2:Pr3+, ZnO:Pr3+ and ZnS:Pr3+) or 280oC (ZrO2:Pr3+). ...
Luminescent properties of combustion synthesized BaAl₂O₄:Eu²⁺ and (Ba₁₋xSrx)Al₂O₄:Eu²⁺ phosphors co-doped with different rare earth ions|
(University of the Free State, 2011-11)
Combustion method was used to prepare all the alkaline earth aluminates (rare-earths doped BaAl2O4, BaSrAl2O4 and BaZnAl2O4) phosphor powders in this study. Measurements of these phosphor powders were carried out using ...
Synthesis and characterization of MgAl₂O₄ and (MgxZn₁-x)Al₂O₄) mixed spinel phospors
(University of the Free State, 2014-01)
Magnesium aluminate (MgAl2O4) has received special attention as a technologically important material because of its attractive properties, such as mechanical strength, chemical inertness, a wideband gap, relatively low ...
Material properties of semiconducting nanostructures synthesized using the chemical bath deposition method
(University of the Free State (QwaQwa Campus), 2013-11)
The recent global research interest in wide band gap semiconductors has been focused on zinc oxide (ZnO) due to its excellent and unique properties as a semiconductor material. The high electron mobility, high thermal ...
Luminescence investigation of trivalent rare earth ions in sol-gel derived SiO₂ and ZnO co-doped SiO₂:Pr³⁺
(University of the Free State, 2011-05)
Tb3+-Pr3+ , Ce3+-Pr3+ , and Eu3+-Pr3+ ion pairs co-doped in SiO2 were successfully synthesized using a sol gel method to produce rare earth activated oxide nanophosphors. Green emitting ZnO nanoparticles were also successfully ...
Theoretical and experimental study of core-shell structured ZnO/ZnS and growth mechanism of un-doped and doped ZnO nanomaterials
(University of the Free State (Qwaqwa Campus), 2017-12)
There is currently widespread interest among researchers in ZnO-ZnS coreshell nanorods as electrodes in prototype solar cells. ZnS has been proposed as a suit- able inorganic sensitizer to ZnO because ZnO and ZnS when in ...
The effects of structure and ligand variations on the luminescence of Europium (III) complexes
(University of the Free State, 2018-02)
The chemistry of lanthanides has expanded immensely across many scientific fields over the
years and that was mainly due to the rare versatility exhibited by the spectroscopic and
magnetic nature of these metals in the ...