Propriedades ópticas do Mn2+ em sistemas Mg-Si-O

O objetivo deste trabalho foi investigar amostras do tipo MgSiO dopadas com 1,0% e 5,0% de Mn2+, obtidas em temperatura ambiente que luminesceram na faixa do vermelho. As amostras foram produzidas por reação de estado sólido sob alta temperatura e caracterizadas e pelo método de difração de raios X. Para análise das características físicas presentes na amostra após a dopagem, usamos a espectroscopia de fotoluminescência. Através da teoria do campo cristalino, dos espectros de luminescência e excitação e com a ajuda do diagrama e das matrizes de Tanabe-Sugano, foi possível identificar as luminescências, os níveis de energia excitados, os parâmetros de energia do campo cristalino, os parâmetros de Racah e a simetria do sítio ocupado por Mn2+.

Fluorescence cross-correlation spectroscopy to study hemodynamics

[EN] In the recent years a series of optical correlation techniques have been developed in order to be able to measure flow velocity with high spatial resolution while being non-invasive in order to be employed in-vivo on biological organisms. The technique employed in my thesis work, scanning laser image correlation (SLIC), is a powerful approach for the detection of flow motions because it overcomes some limitations of the classical spectroscopy techniques. SLIC method consists in repeated laser scans over a linear pattern and on the cross correlation of the signal emitted by the excited fluorophores in different positions along the scan line. Therefore, the resulting measurements for flow velocity are really accurate.

Luminescence and Magnetic Properties of Two Three -Dimensional Terbium and Dysprosium MOFs Based on Azobenzene-4,4 '-Dicarboxylic Linker

We report the in situ formation of two novel metal-organic frameworks based on terbium and dysprosium ions using azobenzene-4,4-dicarboxylic acid (H(2)abd) as ligand, synthesized by soft hydrothermal routes. Both materials show isostructural three-dimensional networks with channels along a axis and display intense photoluminescence properties in the solid state at room temperature. Textural properties of the metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have been fully characterized although no appreciable porosity was obtained. Magnetic properties of these materials were studied, highlighting the dysprosium material displays slightly frequency-dependent out of phase signals when measured under zero external field and under an applied field of 1000 Oe.