Research Article

Influence of Impurities on the Luminescence of Er3+ Doped BaTiO3 Nanophosphors

Table 1

Summary of the fitting parameters for the fluorescence of three different erbium-doped nanocrystals and ratio between the fluorescence integrated intensity for crystals with 26.8 nm and 22.9 nm diameter calculated using (1).

Nanocrystals (nm) (26.8)/ (22.9)

BaTiO3 : Er3+ [18] 1.24
BaYF5 : Yb3+/Er3+ [19] 1.20
Y2O3 : Er3+ [20] 1.17