Abstract
Highly uniform and well-dispersed CeO(2) and CeO(2):Eu(3+) (Sm(3+), Tb(3+)) nanocrystals were prepared by a nonhydrolytic solution route and characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), X-ray photoelectron spectra (XPS), UV/vis absorption, and photoluminescence (PL) spectra, respectively. The result of XRD indicates that the CeO(2) nanocrystals are well crystallized with a cubic structure. The TEM images illustrate that the average size of CeO(2) nanocrystals is about 3.5 nm in diameter. The absorption spectrum of CeO(2):Eu(3+) nanocrystals exhibits red-shifting with respect to that of the undoped CeO(2) nanocrystals. Under the excitation of 440 nm (or 426 nm) light, the colloidal solution of the undoped CeO(2) nanocrystals shows a very weak emission band with a maximum at 501 nm, which is remarkably enhanced by doping additional lanthanide ions (Eu(3+), Tb(3+), Sm(3+)) in the CeO(2) nanocrystals. The emission band is not due to the characteristic emission of the lanthanide ions but might arise from the oxygen vacancy which is introduced in the fluorite lattice of the CeO(2)nanocrystals to compensate the effective negative charge associated with the trivalent ions.
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