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SUBMITTER: Kuusela L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7040811 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Materials (Basel, Switzerland) 20200122 3
The impact of the progressive addition of ZnO up to 5 mol% on the thermal, structural, and optical properties of Er<sup>3+</sup>-doped phosphate glasses within the system NaPO<sub>3</sub>-NaF-ZnO-Ag<sub>2</sub>O is discussed. The glass network was found to depolymerize upon the addition of ZnO. This promotes a slight increase in the intensity of the emission at 1.5 µm as well as enhances the silver ions clustering ability under the heat treating. The Ag-nanoparticles formed after moderate heat-t ...[more]