Thèse soutenue

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Auteur / Autrice : Jan Mrazek
Direction : Lubomir Špaňhel
Type : Thèse de doctorat
Discipline(s) : Chimie
Date : Soutenance en 2011
Etablissement(s) : Rennes 1 en cotutelle avec Univerzita Karlova (Prague)
Ecole(s) doctorale(s) : École doctorale Sciences de la matière (Rennes ; 1996-2016)
Partenaire(s) de recherche : autre partenaire : Université européenne de Bretagne (2007-2016)

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The presented study deals with the sol-gel synthesis of nanocrystalline ternary phases of the general formula ZnxTiyOz, their characterization and potential application in photonics. Achieved results brings new fundamental knowledge about the processes leading to the formation of ZnxTiyOz nanocrystals from amorphous xerogels and gives novel information about structural and opto-electrical properties of prepared materials. Two sol-gel approaches based on the cluster process and direct heteronucleation were employed to prepare initial sol. Sols were optionally doped by Eu3+ ions to evaluate the effects of rare earth element to crystallization properties of formed compounds. In the first part of our study crystallization properties and structural evolution of thermally treated xerogels were analyzed. As a result a versatile method allowing the preparation of inverse spinel Zn2TiO4, cubic defect spinel ZnTiO3 and rhombohedral ZnTiO3 with tailored nanocrystal sizes was established. In the second part of the study, approaches elaborated in the first part were successfully exploited for the preparations of thin films with define nanocrystalline structure and selected composition. . Refractive indexes, dispersion curves and band gap energies of particular structures were determined. In the third part of our study the zinc oxide nanoparticles prepared by the solgel process can be successfully employed as a part of host matrixes for rare earth element allowing the preparation of active optical fibers with parameters close to optical fibers prepared by the standard or modified solution doping method.