Issue 41, 2018

Synthesis and characterization of Ca3Lu(GaO)3(BO3)4:Ce3+,Tb3+ phosphors: tunable-color emissions, energy transfer, and thermal stability

Abstract

Blue-green dual-emitting phosphors Ca3Lu(GaO)3(BO3)4:Ce3+,Tb3+ (CLGB:Ce3+,Tb3+) were synthesized via a traditional solid-state reaction method. The phase of the phosphors was characterized by X-ray diffraction and the luminescence properties were investigated using the excitation and emission spectra, decay curves, temperature-dependent emission spectra, CIE chromaticity coordinates, and the internal quantum efficiency. Under 345 nm UV light excitation, Ce3+ singly doped CLGB phosphors presented intense blue light in the 350–550 nm wavelength region with a maximum peak at 400 nm. In sharp contrast, CLGB:Ce3+,Tb3+ phosphors showed both the blue and green emission wavelengths of Ce3+ and Tb3+ ions, respectively. The overall emission colors can be tuned from blue (0.164, 0.042) to green (0.331, 0.485) via increasing the concentration of Tb3+ ions, due to the energy transfer (ET) from Ce3+ ions to Tb3+ ions. The optimal doping concentration of Tb3+ ions in CLGB:Ce3+,Tb3+ phosphors was found to be 40 mol%. The mechanism of the ET from the Ce3+ to Tb3+ ions was demonstrated to be electric quadrupole–quadrupole interaction. The CLGB:0.04Ce3+,0.40Tb3+ sample possessed a high IQE of 54.2% and excellent thermal stability with an activation energy of 0.3142 eV when excited at 345 nm. The integrated emission intensity of CLGB:0.04Ce3+,0.40Tb3+ at 423 K was found to be about 74% of that at 303 K. Finally, under 300 mA driven current, the fabricated prototype white light-emitting diode showed CIE chromaticity coordinates of (0.3996, 0.3856) and high color rending index of 81.2. Considering all the above characteristics, the obtained CLGB:Ce3+,Tb3+ phosphors can be a type of multicolor emitting phosphor for application in white light-emitting diodes.

Graphical abstract: Synthesis and characterization of Ca3Lu(GaO)3(BO3)4:Ce3+,Tb3+ phosphors: tunable-color emissions, energy transfer, and thermal stability

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
17 Apr 2018
Accepted
29 May 2018
First published
26 Jun 2018
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY-NC license

RSC Adv., 2018,8, 23284-23293

Synthesis and characterization of Ca3Lu(GaO)3(BO3)4:Ce3+,Tb3+ phosphors: tunable-color emissions, energy transfer, and thermal stability

L. Sun, B. Devakumar, B. Li, J. Liang, H. Guo and X. Huang, RSC Adv., 2018, 8, 23284 DOI: 10.1039/C8RA03289K

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