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Luminescence Properties of Ti3+ Doped Methyltriethoxysilane Modified SiO2 Composite Coating

LAN Fang1, CAO Cong-Rui1, XIAO Bo1, JIANG Xiao-Dong2, YUAN Xiao-Dong2, JIANG Bo1*   

    1. College of Chemistry, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, China;
    2. Research Center of Laser Fusion, China Academy of Engineering Physical, Mianyang 621900, China
  • Received:2008-05-08 Revised:1900-01-01 Online:2008-10-10 Published:2008-10-10
  • Contact: JIANG Bo

Abstract: Titanium trichloride doped silica coating modified by methyltriethoxysilane(MTES) was prepared by sol-gel method using two steps hydrolytic condensation with tetraethoxysilane(TEOS) and MTES as the precursors and hydrochloric acid as the catalyst. The properties of the coating were characterized with IR spectroscopy, X-ray diffractometer, spectroscopic ellipsometry and luminescence spectroscopy. The result showed that Ti3+ doped SiO2 coatings gave an excitation spectrum with two maxima, one at the wavelength of 250 nm, the other at the wavelength of 294 nm. Strong emission of Ti3+ doped SiO2 coatings was observed with a maximum at 393 nm. The Si—OH peak of MTES modified SiO2 composite coating is appreciably weaker and the Si—O—Si absoption peak is stronger than the normal Ti3+/SiO2 coating, which indicates that the silicon-oxygen network is improved by addition of MTES. Calculation results show that the porous ratio of the MTES modified Ti3+/SiO2 composite coating was reduced from 13.64% to 6.66%, indicating that the composite coating is much more compact. When the samples were aged in air at 25 ℃ for 30 d, the fluorescence disappeared completely for normal Ti3+/SiO2 coating, while the fluorescence intensity of the MTES modified Ti3+/SiO2 composite coating was only reduced by 18%. When aged in N2 atmosphere at 25 ℃ for 30 d, the fluorescence intensities of both coatings were reduced by only 10%, Showing that the primary reason of fluorescence quenching is oxidization of Ti3+. Addition of MTES in the sol can effectively improve the surface structure of SiO2 coating, which prevents Ti3+ from oxidization leading to a coating with stable fluorescence properties.

Key words: Titanium trichloride, Methyltriethoxysilane, Silica coating, Sol-gel, Luminescence property

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