Erbium is a chemical element; it has symbol Er and atomic number 68. A silvery-white solid metal when artificially isolated, natural erbium is always...
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Naturally occurring erbium (68Er) is composed of six stable isotopes, with 166Er being the most abundant (33.503% natural abundance). Thirty-nine radioisotopes...
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Optical amplifier (redirect from Erbium-doped fiber amplifier)
momentum (specified by the quantum number J). Thus, for example, the trivalent erbium ion (Er3+) has a ground state with J = 15/2, and in the presence of an electric...
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Erbium boride may refer to: Erbium tetraboride, ErB4 Erbium hexaboride, ErB6 This set index article lists chemical compounds articles associated with...
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Erbium(III) oxide has a cubic structure resembling the bixbyite motif. The Er3+ centers are octahedral. Erbium oxide is produced by burning erbium metal...
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Erbium nitride is a binary inorganic compound of erbium and nitrogen with the chemical formula ErN. The compound forms black powder. Chemically, ErN is...
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Er:YAG laser (redirect from Erbium:YAG laser)
Er:YAG laser (erbium-doped yttrium aluminium garnet laser, erbium YAG laser) is a solid-state laser whose active laser medium is erbium-doped yttrium...
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Erbium(III) telluride is an inorganic compound, one of the tellurides of erbium, with the chemical formula Er2Te3. It has a Sc2S3 structure, a space group...
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Erbium(III) selenide is an inorganic compound with a chemical formula of Er2Se3. Erbium(III) selenide can be obtained by the reaction of erbium and selenium:...
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Marc Delafontaine (section Yttrium, terbium and erbium)
thulium and erbium. All three men are given credit for the element's discovery. In 1843, Carl Gustaf Mosander discovered terbium and erbium as components...
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