When x-rays alter the course of your experiments

W Bras, DAA Myles, R Felici - Journal of Physics: Condensed …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The continuing increase in the brilliance of synchrotron radiation beamlines allows for many
new and exciting experiments that were impossible before the present generation of …

Plasmonic enhancement or energy transfer? On the Luminescence of gold‐, silver‐, and lanthanide‐doped silicate glasses and its potential for light‐emitting devices

M Eichelbaum, K Rademann - Advanced Functional Materials, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
With the technique of synchrotron X‐ray activation, molecule‐like, non‐plasmonic gold and
silver particles in soda‐lime silicate glasses can be generated. The luminescence energy …

Advanced tools for unveiling nucleation in nanostructured glass-ceramics

M Montazerian, M Mancini, JC Mauro - Critical Reviews in Solid …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Nucleation is of great interest to materials scientists, physicists, and chemists studying
fundamental scientific aspects of this phenomenon, as well as engineers working to develop …

High resolution synchrotron-based radiography and tomography using hard X-rays at the BAMline (BESSY II)

A Rack, S Zabler, BR Müller, H Riesemeier… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2008 - Elsevier
The use of high brilliance and partial coherent synchrotron light for radiography and
computed tomography (CT) allows to image micro-structured, multi-component specimens …

Photoluminescence of atomic gold and silver particles in soda-lime silicate glasses

M Eichelbaum, K Rademann, A Hoell… - …, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
We report the chemistry and photophysics of atomic gold and silver particles in inorganic
glasses. By synchrotron irradiation of gold-doped soda-lime silicate glasses we could create …

Deep eutectic solvents for the self-assembly of gold nanoparticles: a SAXS, UV–Vis, and TEM investigation

VS Raghuwanshi, M Ochmann, A Hoell, F Polzer… - Langmuir, 2014 - ACS Publications
In this work, we report the formation and growth mechanisms of gold nanoparticles (AuNPs)
in eco-friendly deep eutectic solvents (DES; choline chloride and urea). AuNPs are …

Far-IR spectra of small neutral gold clusters in the gas phase

P Gruene, B Butschke, JT Lyon, DM Rayner… - Zeitschrift für …, 2014 - degruyter.com
Vibrational spectra of small neutral gold clusters containing up to 8 Au atoms are measured
in the far-infrared (46–222 cm–1) via photodissociation of their complexes with krypton …

Three-photon-induced luminescence of gold nanoparticles embedded in and located on the surface of glassy nanolayers

M Eichelbaum, BE Schmidt, H Ibrahim… - …, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
We report on the multiphoton-induced luminescence of gold nanoparticles embedded in thin
glassy silicate–titanate films. The glassy layers doped with gold (III) chloride are synthesized …

Photonic engineering of superbroadband near-infrared emission in nanoglass composites containing hybrid metal and dielectric nanocrystals

Z Gao, H Zhu, B Sun, Y Ji, X Lu, H Tian, J Ren… - Photonics …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Photonic media containing hybrid noble metal–dielectric nanocrystals (NCs) represent a
wonderland of nanophotonics, with a myriad of uncharted optical functions yet to be …

Gold nanoparticles in ancient and contemporary ruby glass

A Ruivo, C Gomes, A Lima, ML Botelho, R Melo… - Journal of Cultural …, 2008 - Elsevier
Gold ruby glass was made by irradiating a soda-lime-silicate glass with ca. 0.2 weight% of
gold with gamma rays and further heating instead of using a reducing agent such as …