911 results about "Yb element" patented technology

Polymer nanocomposite implants with nanofillers and additives are described. The nanofillers described can be any composition with the preferred composition being those composing barium, bismuth, cerium, dysprosium, europium, gadolinium, hafnium, indium, lanthanum, neodymium, niobium, praseodymium, strontium, tantalum, tin, tungsten, ytterbium, yttrium, zinc, and zirconium. The additives can be of any composition with the preferred form being inorganic nanopowders comprising aluminum, calcium, gallium, iron, lithium, magnesium, silicon, sodium, strontium, titanium. Such nanocomposites are particularly useful as materials for biological use in applications such as drug delivery, biomed devices, bone or dental implants.

An erbium fiber (or erbium-ytterbium) based chirped pulse amplification system is illustrated. The use of fiber amplifiers operating in the telecommunications window enables the implementation of telecommunications components and telecommunications compatible assembly procedures with superior mechanical stability.

A coating applied as a two layer system. The outer layer is an oxide of a group IV metal selected from the group consisting of zirconium oxide, hafnium oxide and combinations thereof, which are doped with an effective amount of a lanthanum series oxide. These metal oxides doped with a lanthanum series addition comprises a high weight percentage of the outer coating. As used herein, lanthanum series means an element selected from the group consisting of lanthanum (La), cerium (Ce), praseodymium (Pr), neodymium (Nd), promethium (Pm), samarium (Sm), europium (Eu), gadolinium (Gd), terbium (Tb), dysprosium (Dy), holmium (Ho), erbium (Er), thulium (Tm), ytterbium (Yb), lutetium (Lu) and combinations thereof, and lanthanum series oxides are oxides of these elements. When the zirconium oxide is doped with an effective amount of a lanthanum series oxide, a dense reaction layer is formed at the interface of the outer layer of TBC and the CMAS. This dense reaction layer prevents CMAS infiltration below it. The second layer, or inner layer underlying the outer layer, comprises a layer of partially stabilized zirconium oxide.

A battery (100) comprises an electrolyte in which a lanthanide and zinc form a redox pair. Preferred electrolytes are acid electrolytes, and most preferably comprise methane sulfonic acid, and it is further contemplated that suitable electrolytes may include at least two lanthanides. Contemplated lanthanides include cerium, praseodymium, neodymium, terbium, and dysprosium, and further contemplate lanthanides are samarium, europium, thulium and ytterbium.

A solar concentrator for concentrating and communicating lower energy light than sunlight to a solar cell, having a chromophore comprised of at least one of neodymium, ytterbium, or vanadium, and having an optical waveguide for directing light to an optical communication region.

The invention relates to a method for preparing fluorescent nano material converted on NaYF4, comprising the steps: yttrium nitrate, ytterbium nitrate and erbium nitrate or yttrium chloride, ytterbium chloride, erbium chloride and thulium chloride are dissolved in de-ionized water according to the mixture radio that the mol ratio of rare earth ions which are yttrium ion, ytterbium ion and erbium ion is equal to (70-95): (1-25): (0.5-10), so that the mixed solution is prepared; water soluble polymer having the ligand radical with the rare earth ions is added into the mixed solution for stirring reaction to form complex compound; the pH value of the mixed solution is adjusted to be 2-6; sodium fluoride, ammonium fluoride or hydrofluoric acid can be added into the mixed solution and stirred until colloid solution that is approximately transparent is obtained; then, the colloid solution is put into a high pressure closed reactor and heated at the temperature of 140-200 DEG C; after that the obtained product is cooled to be the room temperature, centrifugated, separated, washed and dried, finally, the fluorescent nano material converted on NaYF4 is obtained. The method can be used for preparing the converted material at lower temperature, the particle size and the appearance can be controlled, and the water-solubility is good.

A ceramic bonding composition comprises a first oxide and at least a second oxide having a formula of Me₂O₃; wherein the first oxide is selected from the group consisting of aluminum oxide, scandium oxide, and combinations thereof; Me is selected from the group consisting of yttrium, lanthanum, cerium, praseodymium, neodymium, samarium, europium, gadolinium, terbium, dysprosium, holmium, erbium, thulium, ytterbium, lutetium, and combinations thereof. The ceramic bonding composition can further comprise silica. An article of manufacture comprising at least two members attached together with the ceramic bonding composition.

Methods for making barrier coatings including a taggant involving providing a barrier coating, and adding from about 0.01 mol % to about 30 mol % of a taggant to the barrier coating wherein the taggant comprises a rare earth element selected from lanthanum, cerium, praseodymium, neodymium, promethium, samarium, europium, gadolinium, terbium, dysprosium, holmium, erbium, ytterbium, and lutetium, salts thereof, silicates thereof, oxides thereof, zirconates thereof, hafnates thereof, titanates thereof, tantalates thereof, cerates thereof, aluminates thereof, aluminosilicates thereof, phophates thereof, niobates thereof, borates thereof, and combinations thereof.

A turbine engine component is provided which has a substrate and a thermal barrier coating applied over the substrate. The thermal barrier coating comprises alternating layers of yttria-stabilized zirconia and a molten silicate resistant material. The molten silicate resistant outer layer may be formed from at least one oxide of a material selected from the group consisting of lanthanum, cerium, praseodymium, neodymium, promethium, samarium, europium, gadolinium, terbium, dysprosium, holmium, erbium, thulium, ytterbium, lutetium, scandium, indium, zirconium, hafnium, and titanium or may be formed from a gadolinia-stabilized zirconia. If desired, a metallic bond coat may be present between the substrate and the thermal barrier coating system. A method for forming the thermal barrier coating system of the present invention is described.

A tunable highly efficient and high power ultraviolet (UV) laser source with good spatial beam quality is disclosed. A plurality of laser lights are generated by ytterbium (Yb) doped fiber laser and erbium/ytterbium (Er/Yb) doped fiber laser. In order to achieve a desired UV wavelength, the Yb-doped and Er/Yb-doped fiber lasers are tuned to generate laser lights of certain wavelengths based on a desired UV light wavelength. The laser lights from the Er/Yb-doped fiber laser and the Yb-doped fiber laser are frequency-doubled. The frequency-doubled laser lights are non-linearly frequency-mixed to generate a UV light with the desired wavelength.

A fiber optic article can comprise a core, an inner region disposed about the core and a cladding disposed about the inner region. The index of refraction of the cladding can be less than that of the inner region, and the index of refraction of the inner region can be less than that of the core. The fiber can include a second cladding disposed about the cladding, where the second cladding has an index of refraction that is less than the index of refraction of the cladding. The inner region can have a non circular outer perimeter that includes at least one inwardly oriented section. The article can be elongate along a longitudinal axis and can include at least one longitudinally extending region, such as a stress inducing region, for providing birefringence and the inwardly oriented region can face the longitudinally extending region. The fiber optic article can include active material for providing light responsive to the article receiving pump light, such as, for example, one or more rare earths. The rare earths can include erbium and ytterbium.

The invention relates to a dispersion-strengthened copper, the process for preparation thereof and the productive technology of products. The content of dispersion strengthening phase in dispersion-strengthened copper is 0.5-1.25wt%, the size of dispersion strengthening phase particle is 0.01-0.05um, and the distance is 0.1-0.5um. The process for preparing the nano-phase dispersion-strengthened copper comprises the following steps: firstly, mixing aluminium, ytterbium, lanthanum, cerium or zirconium powder with cuprous oxide powder in indoor temperature or inactive gas, and forming copper alloy powder with nanometer reinforcing phase in a copper base body through an in situ reaction synthesis method and through mechanical alloy, secondly, annealing under inactive gas, thirdly, milling compound powder and electrolytic copper powder in a second step with high energy to get nano-phase dispersion-strengthened copper alloy. Section bars which are needed are prepared through utilizing dispersion-strengthened copper which is got to anneal and do isostatic cool pressing, sintering densification and cold working. The process for preparing dispersion-strengthened copper has the advantages of low production cost, high yield and simple technique, and relative products which are prepared have excellent combination properties such as heat conductivity and electric conductivity.

Low work function metals for use as gate electrode in nMOS devices are provided. The low work function metals include alloys of lanthanide(s), metal and semiconductor. In particular, an alloy of nickel-ytterbium (NiYb) is used to fully silicide (FUSI) a silicon gate. The resulting nickel-ytterbium-silicon gate electrode has a work function of about 4.22 eV.

A fiber optic article, such as an optical fiber or an optical preform, can include a core comprising a concentration of erbium, a concentration of fluorine and a concentration of ytterbium for sensitizing the erbium by absorbing pump light and transferring energy to the erbium. The erbium can provide light having a second wavelength different than the wavelength of the pump light. The article can also include a concentration of phosphorus. The fiber optic article can include a cladding disposed about the core, where the cladding has an index of refraction that is less than the index of refraction of the core, and a second cladding disposed about the first cladding, where the second cladding includes an index of refraction than is less than the index of refraction of the cladding. The fiber optic article can be elongate along a longitudinal axis and can include a longitudinally extending region for providing birefringence.

A sputtering target including an oxide sintered body, the oxide sintered body containing indium (In) and at least one element selected from gadolinium (Gd), dysprosium (Dy), holmium (Ho), erbium (Er) and ytterbium (Yb), and the oxide sintered body substantially being of a bixbyite structure.

This invention relates to the use of novel glass materials comprising rare earth aluminate glasses (REAl™ glasses) in the gain medium of solid state laser devices that produce light at infrared wavelengths, typically in the range 1000 to 3000 nm and for infrared optics with transmission to approximately 5000 nm in thin sections. The novel glass materials provide stable hosts for trivalent ytterbium (Yb³⁺) ions and other optically active species or combinations of optically active species that exhibit fluorescence and that can be optically excited by the application of light. The glass gain medium can be configured as a waveguide or placed in an external laser cavity, or otherwise arranged to achieve gain in the laser waveband and so produce laser action.

Briefly, in accordance with one embodiment of the invention, a light emitting device may comprise a microresonator having an annular structure such as a ring or a disk to recirculate light at a desired wavelength formed on a silicon substrate. A waveguide may be disposed on the silicon substrate to couple with the microresonator. The microresonator may be formed with silicon or silicon-germanium nanocrystals in silicon dioxide and rare earths such as erbium or ytterbium. The light emitting device may be monolithically fabricated using a standard silicon process.

Rare earth compositions comprising nanoparticles, methods of making nanoparticles, and methods of using nanoparticles are described. The compositions of the nanomaterials discussed may include scandium (Sc), yttrium (Y), lanthanum(La), cerium (Ce), praseodymium (Pr), neodymium (Nd), promethium (Pm), samarium (Sm), europium (Eu), gadolinium(Gd), terbium (Tb), dysprosium (Dy), holmium (Ho), erbium (Er), thulium (Tm), ytterbium (Yb), and lutetium (Lu). The nanoparticles can be used to make organometallics, nitrates, and hydroxides. The nanoparticles can be used in a variety of applications, such as pigments, catalysts, polishing agents, coatings, electroceramics, catalysts, optics, phosphors, and detectors.

Ceramic materials with relatively high resistance to wetting by various liquids, such as water, are presented, along with articles made with these materials, methods for making these articles and materials, and methods for protecting articles using coatings made from these materials. One embodiment is a material comprising a primary oxide and a secondary oxide. The primary oxide comprises cerium and hafnium. The secondary oxide comprises a secondary oxide cation selected from the group consisting of the rare earth elements, yttrium, and scandium. Another embodiment is a material comprising a primary oxide and a secondary oxide. The primary oxide comprises cerium or hafnium. The secondary oxide comprises (i) praseodymium or ytterbium, and (ii) another cation selected from the group consisting of the rare earth elements, yttrium, and scandium.

The invention belongs to the technical field of photoelectric equipments, in particular to a device capable of generating various optical solitons. The optical soliton generation device based on a passive mode-locked ytterbium-doped fiber laser comprises a polarization controller (1), a 1*N optical switch (2), an optical fiber group (3), a 1*N optical coupler (4), a dispersion compensation fiber (5), an optical isolator (6), a ytterbium-doped fiber, a light wavelength division multiplexing (8), a pump light source (9), a saturable absorber (10) and a 1*2 optical coupler (1). In the same passive mode-locked ytterbium-doped fiber laser system, the optical soliton generation device based on the passive mode-locked ytterbium-doped fiber laser is capable of obtaining parabolic dissipative soliton single-pulse optical solitons, hyperbolic secant-shaped soliton single-pulse optical solitons, bounded multi-soliton optical solitons of the two optical pulses and other optical solitons; when switching between different types of solitons, a user does not need to change a light path structure, and the switching speed is very fast.