Abstract
We report a simple, eco-friendly facile wet chemical route for the synthesis of pristine and rare–earth metal co-doped (Er/Yb, 10/90, 15/85, 20/80) nano-crystalline, strontium stannate (SrSnO3) whiskers. It is n-type wide bandgap (~4.1 eV) orthorhombic perovskite semiconductor at room temperature, and reveals increase in band gap with the increase in Er/Yb content (from 4.10 to 4.23, 4.30 to 4.39 eV). The samples exhibited strong emission around 365 nm following band-edge excitation by the wavelength of 290 nm. Further, strong up-conversion emission was observed in visible range at the excitation of wavelength 980 nm. The resistivity values were found to decrease with increase in the dopants Er/Yb concentration due to enhancement of charge carriers.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 573-579 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | Transactions of the Indian Institute of Metals |
| Volume | 70 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Apr 1 2017 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2017, The Indian Institute of Metals - IIM.
Keywords
- Chemical synthesis
- Conductivity
- Optical properties
- Perovskite
- Up–conversion