RT Journal Article
T1 α-Bi_2O_3 microcrystals and microrods: thermal synthesis, structural and luminescence properties
A1 Piqueras De Noriega, Francisco Javier
A1 Díaz-Guerra Viejo, Carlos
A1 Vila Santos, María
AB α-Bi_2O-3 microcrystals and microrods with pyramidal tips have been grown by a vapour–solid method using pure Bi as starting material. The morphology of the obtained microstructures depends on the annealing temperature and time. At 650 °C and for short annealing times, microcrystals with well defined facets and sizes of tens of microns, as well as clusters of microcrystals, are formed. Microrods were grown at 800 °C, mainly from nucleation sites in the clusters of microcrystals, and reach lengths of hundreds of microns. Micro-Raman spectroscopy measurements reveal the homogeneity of the obtained microstructures regarding the crystalline α-phase. The luminescence properties of the microrods have been investigated by cathodoluminescence in the scanning electron microscope and by photoluminescence in a confocal microscope. The obtained results were correlated with X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy measurements.
PB Elsevier Science
SN 0925-8388
YR 2013
FD 2013-01-25
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/33387
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/33387
LA eng
NO © 2012 Elsevier B.V.This work has been supported by MICINN through projects MAT2009-07882 and CSD2009-0013. The authors are grateful toE. Magnano, S. Nappini and M. Yablonskikh at the Sincrotron Trieste for useful advices on XPS measurements.
NO MICINN (Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, España)
DS Docta Complutense
RD 7 abr 2025