YTTERBIUM INFORMATION CENTER
PROPERTIES, APPLICATIONS AND RESEARCH
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PROPERTIES OF YTTERBIUM
| Melting Point | 824°C |
| Boiling Point | 1427°C |
| Density | 6.98 g/cm3 |
| Crystal Structure | fcc |
| Metallic Radius | 194 pm |
| Valency | 3 |
| Magnetic Moment | 4.54µB |
APPLICATIONS OF YTTERBIUM
Ytterbium is being applied to numerous fiber amplifier and fiber optic technologies and in various lasing applications. It has a single dominant absorption band at 985 in the infra-red making it useful in silicon photocells to directly convert radiant energy to electricity.
Ytterbium metal increases its electrical resistance when subjected to very high stresses. This property is used in stress gauges for monitoring ground deformations from earthquakes and nuclear explosions.
It is also used as in thermal barrier system bond coatings on nickel, iron and other transitional metal alloy substrates.
RECENT YTTERBIUM RESEARCH
1. Laporta P, Taccheo S, Longhi S, et al.
Erbium-ytterbium microlasers: optical properties and lasing characteristics
OPT MATER 11: (2-3) 269-288 JAN 1999
2. Sousa JM, Nilsson J, Renaud CC, et al.
Broad-band diode-pumped ytterbium-doped fiber amplifier with 34-dBm output power
IEEE PHOTONIC TECH L 11: (1) 39-41 JAN 1999
3. Yakovlenko SI
Main physical problems of AVLIS technology in producing ytterbium- 168 in weighable
amounts
LASER PART BEAMS 16: (4) 541-568 1998
4. Skipetrov EP, Chernova NA, Slynko El, et al.
Ytterbium-induced impurity states and insulator-metal transition under pressure in Pb
1-xGexTe alloys
PHYS STATUS SOLIDI B 210: (2) 289-293 DEC 1998
5. Takaki K, Kurioka M, Kamata T, et al.
Dehydrogenative silylation of terminal alkynes catalyzed by ytterbium-imine
complexes
J ORG EM 63: (25) 9265-9269 DEC 11 1998
6. Hedley J, Lewis EL, Wood MJ
Lineshapes of consecutive transitions in ytterbium
J PHYS B-AT MOL OPT 31: (22) 4919-4927 NOV 28 1998
7. Hillier AC, Sella A, Elsegood MRJ
lsocarbonyl complexes of divalent samarium and ytterbium. The molecular structures
of [{Ln (Tp(tBu,Me))(THF )(mu-CO)(2)Mo-eta-5H4Me(CO)}(2)](Ln=Sm,Yb)
J CHEM SOC DALTON (22) 3 871-3 874 NOV 21 1998
8. Sharma GVM, Ilangovan A, Mahalingarn AK
A mild and highly selective deprotective method of prenyl ethers using ytterbium
triflate
J ORG CHEM 63: (24) 9103-9104 NOV-27 1998
9. Hofer M, Fermann ME, Galvanauskas A, et al.
High-power 100-fs pulse generation by frequency doubling of an erbium-ytterbium
-fiber master oscillator power amplifier
OPT LETT 23: (23) 1840-1842 DEC 1 1998
10. Sun T, Zhang ZY, Grattan KTV, et al.
Ytterbium-based fluorescence decay time fiber optic temperature sensor systems
REV SCI INSTRUM 69: (12) 4179-4185 DEC 1998
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