TY - JOUR A1 - Unger, Brita A1 - Rurack, Knut A1 - Müller, Ralf A1 - Resch-Genger, Ute A1 - Buttke, K. T1 - Effects of the Sol-Gel Processing on the Fluorescence Properties of Laser Dyes in Tetraethoxysilane Derived Matrices JF - Journal of sol gel science and technology N2 - Two fluorescent dyes were incorporated into sol-gel derived SiO2 matrices. The dye was added to SiO2 precursors of different degrees of pre-condensation and the spectroscopic properties of the immobilized dye were measured at various aging and drying stages of the resulting gels. The significant influence of the processing parameters on the spectroscopic properties is manifested in the relative intensity of a second red shifted emission band (550–560 nm), which was observed besides the typical coumarin emission band (495 nm). The appearance of this long wavelength emission might be attributed to dye aggregation or to other reactions with the ambient matrix forced by micro porosity phenomena. KW - Sol-gel KW - Precursor chemistry KW - Fluorescence properties KW - Optical solids PY - 2000 DO - https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008768318418 SN - 0928-0707 SN - 1573-4846 VL - 19 SP - 799 EP - 802 PB - Kluwer Academic Publ. CY - Dordrecht AN - OPUS4-1080 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -