Isabella got a funding her doctoral studies from “Young researchers grant” from Turun yliopistosäätiö for a year. Congratulations, Isabella!
Category Archives: 2016
UTUPS helps with pedagogical support
A new teaching enviroment has been launched to help with university pedagogical studies for university teachers and doctoral students at the University of Turku. If you’re clever enough you can spot familiar faces when browsing at the pages or looking the videos. 🙂
UTUPS news in intranet (in Finnish, only UTU accounts)
http://utupedasupport.utu.fi/ is the link to the teaching enviroment for those in need. Password can be found from the news page above (only UTU accounts).
Collaboration publication about Semiconductor Junctions
Check out our latest collaboration article about semiconductor junctions!
Kuzmin, M., Laukkanen, P., Mäkelä, J., Yasir, M., Tuominen, M., Dahl, J., Punkkinen, M.P.J., Kokko, K., Hedman, H.P., Moon, J., Punkkinen, R., Lastusaari, M., Polojärvi, V., Korpijärvi, V.-M., and Guina, M., Toward the Atomically Abrupt Interfaces of SiOx/Semiconductor Junctions, Adv. Mater. Interfaces (2016) 1500510-1-5.
Read online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/admi.201500510
Celebrations!
Today we had an afternoon break to celebrate Minnea and Isabella for their achievements. Minnea got her first publication out about the effect of Mn and Cr doping on the up-conversion luminescence from NaYF4:Yb3+,Er3+ and Isabella graduated as a Master of Science. Congratulations to both!
Minnea’s article can be found behind a link here http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.optmat.2016.01.016. It will be added to our publication list after it has got page numbers.
New faces!
For the year 2016 we have a pleasure to have additional power to our group in the form of two new post docs from Brazil, Liana and Zé. Liana’s research area is focused on studies of photoluminescence properties on aluminates materials doped with Cr3+ and rare earths and Zé is investigating the photoluminescence of sunlight-activated persistent phosphors based on Ti3+ and Cr3+.
We hope that you guys have a pleasant time in Finland with us and also that the snow would melt before 1st of May.
New publication about glass-ceramics with persistent luminescence properties
Check out a new publication from our collaborators about persistent luminescence in glass-ceramics:
Massera, J., Gaussiran, M., Głuchowski, P., Lastusaari, M., Petit, L., Hölsä, J., and Hupa, L., Effect of the glass melting condition on the processing of phosphate-based glass–ceramics with persistent luminescence properties, Opt. Mater. 52 (2016) 56-61.
Read online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.optmat.2015.12.006
New publication: Valence control with Gd co-doping
Yet another publication for the end of the year, check out this valence control study with gadolinium co-doping from our Brazilian collaboration.
Carvalho, J.M., Lastusaari, M., Rodrigues, L.C.V., Hölsä, J., Felinto, M.C.F.C., and Brito, H.F., Valence control of Pr in ZrO2 nanocrystals by aliovalent Gd3+ co-doping, J. Lumin. 170 (2016) 627-632.
Read online: http://dx.doi.org10.1016/j.jlumin.2015.07.009
New publication: Studies about valence instability in europium and terbium phosphors
2016 started early this year, check out this new publication about valence instability in europium and terbium phosphor and how it is studied.
Rodrigues, L.C.V., Hölsä, J., Brito, H.F., Maryško, M., Matos, J.R., Paturi, P., Rodrigues, R.V., and Lastusaari, M., Magneto-optical studies of valence instability in europium and terbium phosphors, J. Lumin. 170 (2016) 701-706.
Read online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jlumin.2015.08.018