NANO PRO Ytterbium (Yb) Metal 99.5% 2N5

NANO PRO™ Ytterbium (Yb) Metal 99.5% 2N5

• Product Number: CM0130 (1 kg)
• Formula: Yb
• CAS Number: 7440-64-4
• Molecular Weight: 173.05 g/mol
• Density: 6.90 g/cm³ at 25 °C
• Melting Point: 824 °C
• Color: Silvery white; with a pale yellow tint
• Boiling point: 1196 °C
• Purity: 99.9% 2N5 (Yb/TREM*)

Applications 

Ytterbium (Yb) is a rare earth element that belongs to the lanthanide series. It is used as the source of gamma rays, in high-stability atomic clocks, as additives of stainless steel, as dopant of active media, as ion qubits for quantum computing and in stress gauges.

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References

[1] Ytterbium-doped fiber laser behavior in a gamma-ray environment. In Photonics for Space Environments X, vol. 5897, pp. 129-137. SPIE, 2005.

[2] Ytterbium in quantum gases and atomic clocks: van der Waals interactions and blackbody shifts. Physical review letters 109, no. 23 (2012): 230802.

[3] Impact of gamma-ray radiation-induced photodarkening on mode instability degradation of an ytterbium-doped fiber amplifier. Optics Express 26, no. 16 (2018): 20430-20441.