Influences of Ion Exchange and Thermal Treatment on Photoluminescence of Noble Metal Doped Silicate Glasses

doi:10.15541/jim20160214

Abstract

Abstract:

Noble metallic nanoparticles-glass composites have attracted much interest because of their technical potential as nonlinear media. In present work, the influences of ion-exchange and thermal treatment on the photoluminescence of noble metal doped silicate glasses were discussed based on photoluminescence (PL) spectroscopy and ligand field theory. The results indicate that metallic ion concentration in silicate glass increases with extending ion-exchanged period. There exist isolated Ag⁺ ions and Ag₂⁺ clusters in Ag-doped silicate glass. Concentration of the isolated Ag⁺ ions decreases quickly and Ag₃²⁺ clusters appear after annealing the Ag-doped silicate glass in H₂. While there exist only isolated Cu⁺ and Cu²⁺ ions in the Cu-doped silicate glass, no photoluminescence of Cu⁺ clusters are found in the glass. The existence of Cu²⁺ ions makes the luminescence of Cu⁺ quenching. It is very difficult to introduce Cu⁺ ions into the annealed Ag-doped glass in H₂ via Cu⁺ for Na⁺ ion-exchange.

Key words: ion-exchange, thermal treatment, nobel metallic ions and clusters, photoluminescence, ligand field theory

CLC Number:

TQ174

YANG Xiu-Chun. Influences of Ion Exchange and Thermal Treatment on Photoluminescence of Noble Metal Doped Silicate Glasses[J]. Journal of Inorganic Materials, 2016, 31(10): 1039-1045.

Figures/Tables 7

Fig. 1 Influences of ion-exchanged period (a) and temperature (b) on photoluminescence of Cu-doped silicate glasses PL spectra excited by 280 nm and PLE spectra detected by 500 nm

Fig. 2 Level configuration scheme for the Cu+ ion, with the effect of a tetragonal distortion of the octahedral field[26]

Fig. 3 PL spectra of samples Cu-H-1 and Cu-H-2 excited by 280 nm

Fig. 4 (a) PL spectra of Ag-doped silicate glasses excited by 240 nm and a representative excitation spectrum detected by 360 nm emission; (b) PL differential spectrum of sample Ag-1 subtracting sodalime silicate glass (solid line) and the corresponding Gaussian fits (dot lines)

Fig. 5 Influences of AgNO3 mass fraction on photoluminescence of Ag-doped silicate glasses at excitation wavelength of 240 nm

Fig. 6 PL and PLE spectra of samples Ag-2 and Ag-6 (a) PL spectra excited by 240 nm; (b-d) PLE spectra of Ag-6 detected by 345 nm, 510 nm and 670 nm, respectively

Fig. 7 PL and PLE spectra of samples Ag-Cu-1 and Ag-Cu-2 (a) PL spectra excited by 240 nm (b) PLE spectra of sample Ag-Cu-1 detected by 550 nm (dash curve) and 640 nm (dot curve), respectively

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