Upconversion 32Nb2O5-10La2O3-16ZrO2 glass activated with Er3+/Yb3+ and dye sensitized solar cell application

Xiaoyu LI; Jiaying LI; Jianqiang LI; Hong LIN; Bo LI

doi:10.1007/s40145-017-0243-3

Journal of Advanced Ceramics 2017, 6(4): 312-319 https://doi.org/10.1007/s40145-017-0243-3

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Upconversion 32Nb₂O₅-10La₂O₃-16ZrO₂ glass activated with Er³⁺/Yb³⁺ and dye sensitized solar cell application

Show Author's Information Hide Author's Information Xiaoyu LI^{^†^,^a}, Jiaying LI^{^a^,^†^,^b}, Jianqiang LI^{^a^,^c}(

), Hong LIN^{^d}, Bo LI^{^b}

a National Engineering Laboratory for Hydrometallurgical Cleaner Production Technology, Key Laboratory of Green Process and Engineering, Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China

b Advanced Materials Institute, Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518055, China

c University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

d State Key Laboratory of New Ceramics and Fine Processing, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

† These authors contributed equally to this work.

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aerodynamic levitation (ADL), niobium pentoxide, upconversion, rare earth concentration, solar cell

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LI X, LI J, LI J, et al. Upconversion 32Nb₂O₅-10La₂O₃-16ZrO₂ glass activated with Er³⁺/Yb³⁺ and dye sensitized solar cell application. Journal of Advanced Ceramics, 2017, 6(4): 312-319. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40145-017-0243-3

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Er³⁺/Yb³⁺ codoped niobium pentoxide glasses were fabricated by the aerodynamic levitation (ADL) method with rapid cooling rate. All samples with various doping concentrations showed good upconversion luminescence properties under 980 nm laser excitation. The structure, transmittance spectrum, and luminescence properties of the samples were systemically investigated by XRD, UV-Vis-NIR spectrophotometer, and upconversion spectra. All transparent samples exhibited green and red upconversion emissions centered at 532, 547, and 670 nm. Experimental results showed that the sample codoped with 1 mol% Er³⁺/Yb³⁺ has the strongest upconversion emissions, and the increase of the doped Yb³⁺ concentration results in the increased red emission and reduced green emission. The logI-logP plot of green emission indicated that the green emissions reach the saturation at high pump power excitation, deviating from the low-power regime. After one-photon energy transfer (ET) process, ⁴I_11/2+⁴I_11/2→⁴F_7/2+⁴I_15/2 process between the two neighboring Er³⁺ ions was responsible for the population of the ⁴S_3/2/⁴H_11/2 states. The niobium pentoxide codoped with Er³⁺/Yb³⁺ bulk glasses could be used in the dye sensitized solar cell (DSSC) to improve the efficiency.

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Upconversion 32Nb₂O₅-10La₂O₃-16ZrO₂ glass activated with Er³⁺/Yb³⁺ and dye sensitized solar cell application

Show Author's information Hide Author's Information Xiaoyu LI^{^†^,^a}, Jiaying LI^{^a^,^†^,^b}, Jianqiang LI^{^a^,^c}(

), Hong LIN^{^d}, Bo LI^{^b}

b Advanced Materials Institute, Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518055, China

c University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

d State Key Laboratory of New Ceramics and Fine Processing, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

† These authors contributed equally to this work.

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Keywords: aerodynamic levitation (ADL), niobium pentoxide, upconversion, rare earth concentration, solar cell

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Received: 10 April 2017

Revised: 08 August 2017

Accepted: 22 August 2017

Published: 19 December 2017

Issue date: December 2017

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This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 51671181, 51674232, and 51471158), Beijing Natural Science Foundation (No. 2152032), the Science and Technology Plan of Shenzhen City (Grant No. JCYJ20150827165038323), State Key Laboratory of New Ceramic and Fine Processing Tsinghua University (No. KF201417), the Open Funding Project of Key Laboratory of Photochemical Conversion and Optoelectronic Materials (TIPC in CAS), and the Instrument Developing Project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. YZ201520).

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