Estudo dos Efeitos da Adição de Zn2+ e de Íons Terras-Raras nas Propriedades Dielétricas e de Luminescência da Matriz Cerâmica Lanbo4

Abstract

With the rapid growth of wireless technologies, the telecommunications industry has constantly searching materials having excellent dielectric characteristics to be based on new devices. Due to this ever increasing demand, research for new and improved ceramic materials have occupied prominent place in the interest of the scientific community worldwide. The use of ceramic materials in search of fluorescent materials also has received attention, since such materials have several applications, such as lasers; light emitting diode (LED); as a source of light sensors; optical data storage and even in the medical field. In this work were studied the properties of LaNbO4 (LNO) matrix modified by adding of ZnO and also by doping with rare-earth ions erbium; ytterbium and thulium. The pure and doped LaNO4 samples were obtained by solid state reaction method using oxide precursor followed by heat treatment, while samples with ZnO was obtained by adding of determined quantity of latter on the LNO. The results of x-ray diffraction and Raman spectroscopy confirmed the formation of the ceramic phase LNO and the values of the dielectric properties obtained of this material were close to the values of the literature. The numerical simulation realized for LNO presented good gain value and a high efficiency, showing that this material can act as a DRA. About the addition of zinc, the x-ray diffraction showed that practically not occured significant changes in the diffraction pattern of LNO phase, being that regarding the dielectric properties was observed that the addition caused increase in the values of the permittivity and loss tangent nonlinearly with the increasing of the concentration of zinc. In the systems containing rare-earth ions the X-ray diffraction and Raman spectroscopy indicated that the dopant ions entered on the crystalline lattice of LNO phase. In the fluorescence were observed bands in the green and red region for the system with Er3+ and Yb3+ , concerning the transitions between the 4f orbitals of Er3+ . While for the system with Er3+ , Yb3+ and Tm3+ were observed bands in the ultraviolet region; blue; green; red and infrared originated of transitions that occur in the 4f orbitals of Er3 + and in the 4f orbitals of Tm3+.