CHEM01200604004 Shri Sanyasinaidu Boddu - Homi Bhabha ...
CHEM01200604004 Shri Sanyasinaidu Boddu - Homi Bhabha ...
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luminescence studies on self-assembled structures of Sb 2 O 3 nanorods and nanowires. They<br />
observed broad emission peak in the region of 390 to 500 nm, in addition to the band edge<br />
emission centered around 374 nm. Broad emission over the region of 390 to 500 nm has been<br />
attributed to the emission from oxygen vacancies related defect centers present in the lattice<br />
of Sb 2 O 3 . In a related study Deng, et al. [65] observed blue emission around 433 nm from<br />
Sb 2 O 3 nanobelts, which has also been attributed to the oxygen related defect emission. Chen,<br />
et al. [173] has also observed broad emission in the region ~ 400-700 nm from orthorhombic<br />
Sb 2 O 3 . However, no proper explanation was given for the observed broad emission. Sb 3+ is<br />
known to be a good luminescent species when doped into different inorganic host lattices<br />
[174-176]. Oomen, et al. [174] have observed two emission bands, one in the UV and the<br />
other in the visible region from Sb 3+ doped LnPO 4 samples (where Ln = Sc, Lu and Y). These<br />
emission bands arise from transitions between 3 P 1 and 3 P 0 (excited states) to 1 S 0 (ground<br />
state) of Sb 3+ ions and are strongly temperature dependent due to dynamic Jahn-Teller effect.<br />
Antimony doping improves green emission from PbWO 4 single crystals due to creation of O i<br />
sites in the lattice [175]. However, in all these studies, luminescence properties of the Sb 2 O 3<br />
with different morphologies have been given only limited attention, particularly when<br />
luminescent species like lanthanide ions are associated with them. The difficulty in<br />
incorporation of lanthanide ions in the Sb 2 O 3 lattice may possibly a reason for limited<br />
investigation on such materials. The factors responsible for this difficulty are (i) significant<br />
difference in the ionic radius between Eu 3+ ions (0.95Å under 6 coordination) and Sb 3+ ions<br />
(0.76 Å under four coordination) [177] and (ii) difference in the stable coordination numbers<br />
of Eu 3+ and Sb 3+ ions. There is also a vast difference in their electro-negativity values.<br />
Generally Eu 3+<br />
ions prefer higher coordination number like 6, 8 and 9, whereas in<br />
orthorhombic Sb 2 O 3 , antimony has a slightly distorted tetrahedral geometry with oxygen<br />
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