Abstract
A theoretical analysis on experimental results previously obtained on the influence of silver nanoparticles in a polyvinylpirrolidone (PVP) polymer film containing a trivalent europium complex with EDTA ligand is made. Depending on the excitation source (at 393nm with a xenon lamp or at 532nm with a focused diode laser) the characteristic Eu3+ luminescence is observed to be enhanced by factors between 5 and 50. The theoretical analysis presumes a migration process of the EuEDTA complex units towards the silver nanoparticles, during the synthesis of the composite samples, and subsequently the treatment of the competition between local high field gradient effects and Eu3+ ion to the silver nanoparticles energy transfer successfully accounts for the observed luminescence enhancement factors.
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