Efforts to improve the intensity of these emissions have focused
on ytterbium (Yb) rare - earth dopants, as they are easily excitable with standard lasers.
Not exact matches
So he isolated a single
ytterbium atom in a vacuum chamber, shined a laser at it, and focused in
on the resulting 450 - nanometer gap of darkness that landed
on his digital image sensor.
Three of those elements —
ytterbium, erbium, and terbium — were simply given additional variants
on the name of Ytterby, while the other three were named holmium (for Stockholm), scandium, and thulium (both from the Latin for Scandinavia), in the nationalistic fashion then in favor.