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Transparent, Polycrystalline Upconverting Nanoceramics: Towards 3‐D Displays
Author(s) -
Hinklin Thomas R.,
Rand Stephen C.,
Laine Richard M.
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
advanced materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 10.707
H-Index - 527
eISSN - 1521-4095
pISSN - 0935-9648
DOI - 10.1002/adma.200701235
Subject(s) - materials science , crystallite , optoelectronics , laser , optics , irradiation , photon , metallurgy , physics , nuclear physics
Transparent, polycrystalline (Y 0.86 ‐Yb 0.11 Er 0.03 ) 2 O 3 with an average grain size of 400 nm on irradiation with 980 nm laser light through a mask upconverts the IR photons emitting red light at 662 nm. A model for a red pixel in a 3‐D inverted planetarium display is presented (see figure).