Structural and optical properties of Nd{sup 3+} doped gadolinium oxide 1D nanorods

Journal Article · Thu Apr 24 00:00:00 EDT 2014 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4872483· OSTI ID:22269484

Mohan, R. ^[1]; Raj, S. Gokul ^[2]; Kumar, G. Ramesh ^[3]

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1. Department of Physics, Presidency College, Chennai - 600 005 (India)
2. Materials Science Research Lab, Department of Physics, Vel Tech University, Avadi, Chennai -62 (India)
3. Department of Physics, University College of Engineering Arni, Anna University Chennai, Arni - 632 317 (India)

Neodymium doped gadolinium hydroxide [Nd:Gd(OH)3] nanorods were successfully synthesized at 60 °C through co-precipitation method. The dopant percentage was maintained at 5% and calcination was done at 750 °C temperature for 1 hour to form the respective neodymium doped gadolinium oxide [Nd:Gd{sub 2}O{sub 3}] nanorods. The as-formed and annealed products were investigated in detail by using powder X-ray diffraction (XRD) pattern, scanning electron microscopy (SEM) with an energy dispersive X-ray spectrum (EDX), high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM) and photoluminescence (PL) spectrophotometry.

• OSTI ID: 22269484
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1591, Issue 1; Conference: 58. DAE solid state physics symposium 2013, Patiala, Punjab (India), 17-21 Dec 2013; Other Information: (c) 2014 AIP Publishing LLC; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

77 NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY
ANNEALING
CALCINATION
COPRECIPITATION
CRYSTAL STRUCTURE
DOPED MATERIALS
GADOLINIUM HYDROXIDES
GADOLINIUM OXIDES
NANOSTRUCTURES
NEODYMIUM COMPOUNDS
NEODYMIUM IONS
OPTICAL PROPERTIES
PHOTOLUMINESCENCE
POWDERS
RODS
SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY
SPECTROPHOTOMETRY
TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY
X-RAY DIFFRACTION
X-RAY SPECTRA