Fabrication and properties of luminescence polymer composites with erbium/ytterbium oxides and gold nanoparticles

• Julia A. Burunkova,
• Ihor Yu. Denisiuk,
• Dmitri I. Zhuk,
• Lajos Daroczi,
• Attila Csik,
• István Csarnovics and
• Sándor Kokenyesi

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 630–636, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.55

• ; polymer nanocomposites; rare-earth oxide nanoparticles; Introduction Rare-earth (RE) ions are widely investigated and applied, e.g., in photonics, as active materials for optical amplification or as biomarkers. Er-doped materials are important for light sources in optoelectronics, especially for the

• , which together with the negative influence of OH radicals on the IR transmissions makes the development of new composites necessary. The aim of our work was to use the previously developed method of a water-free, low-temperature (below 230 °С) synthesis of rare-earth oxide nanoparticles from their

• realization of plasmonic effects in such a nanocomposite was also aimed and successfully performed. This can be further used as continuation of our previous work on the investigations of polymer nanocomposites for photonics [9][10][11]. Results and Discussion Investigations of rare-earth oxide nanoparticles