Nanoparticles of strontium aluminate phosphors co-a tivated by Eu2+ and Dy3+ have been prepared by heating theprecursorsobtained fromnitrate salt–ammoniumacetic–urea–gel combustionprocess at temperature of 1150 ◦C in a weak reductive atmosphere of thermal carbon. Transmission electronmicroscope

The title compound, di(strontium/lead) hexa-aluminate, is a member of the solid solution series (Sr2-x Pb x )Al6O11. It contains two statistically occupied M (2+) (M = Sr, Pb) sites [both with site symmetries ..m; Sr:Pb occupancy ratios = 0.756 (2):0.244 (2) and 0.8968 (19):0.1032 (19)] that are located in the voids of an aluminate framework. The M (2+) sites are surrounded by six and seven O a...

The thermal conductivity of a series of complex aluminates, RE2SrAl2O7, with different rare-earth (RE) ions, has been measured up to 10001C. There is a strong dependence on the atomic number of the RE ion, ranging from an approximately 1/T dependence for the lanthanum strontium aluminate to an almost temperature-independent behavior of the dysprosium strontium aluminate. The latter conductivity...

Strontium aluminate, SrAl2O4 is well-known phosphor host material with spinel structure. Mg substituted compositions, MgxSr1-xAl2O4: Eu, Nd (with x= 0.05 0.25) were prepared by solid-state reaction method. Effect of Mg substitution on structure and photoluminescence was investigated. Prepared compositions were characterized for the phase and crystallinity by powder X-ray diffraction. The micro-...

Nanosized strontium aluminate phosphors co-activated by Eu2+ and Dy3+ were prepared via a novel reverse microemulsion process. This new ynthesis technique lowered the synthesis temperature of SrAl2O4: Eu2+, Dy3+ phosphors to as low as 900 ◦C, and also reduced the particle size o the nanometer scale (around 40 nm). In the microemulsion process, the constituent cations were trapped by numerous na...

Electronic confinement at nanoscale dimensions remains a central means of science and technology. We demonstrate nanoscale lateral confinement of a quasi-two-dimensional electron gas at a lanthanum aluminate-strontium titanate interface. Control of this confinement using an atomic force microscope lithography technique enabled us to create tunnel junctions and field-effect transistors with char...