Chinese Optics Letters, 2017, 15 (12): 121602, Published Online: Jul. 18, 2018
Synthesis and photoluminescence properties of Sr4La(PO4)3O:RE3+(RE=Eu/Tb/Ce) phosphors
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Fig. 1. XRD patterns of (a) SLPO : x Eu 3 + (x = 0 – 0.17 ), (b) SLPO : x Tb 3 + (x = 0 – 0.17 ), and (c) SLPO : x Ce 3 + (x = 0 – 0.17 ).
Fig. 2. (Color online) PLE (λ em = 611 nm ) and emission (PL, λ ex = 394 nm ) spectra of SLPO : 0.05 Eu 3 + phosphor.
Fig. 3. (Color online) (a) Emission spectra of SLPO : x Eu 3 + (x = 0.01 , 0.05, 0.07, 0.12, and 0.17) at room temperature; (b) the relationships of log(x Eu 3 + ) versus log(I / x Eu 3 + ); inset: PL intensity of SLPO : x Eu 3 + as a function of Eu 3 + concentration.
Fig. 4. (Color online) PLE (λ em = 539 nm ) and emission (PL, λ ex = 379 nm ) spectra of SLPO : 0.07 Tb 3 + phosphor.
Fig. 5. (Color online) (a) Emission spectra of SLPO : x Tb 3 + (x = 0.01 , 0.05, 0.07, 0.12, and 0.17) at room temperature; (b) the relationships of log(x Tb 3 + ) versus log(I / x Tb 3 + ), inset: PL intensity of SLPO : x Tb 3 + as a function of Tb 3 + concentration.
Fig. 6. (Color online) (a) PLE (λ em = 482 nm ) and PL (λ ex = 337 nm ) spectra of SLPO : 0.12 Ce 3 + phosphor; (b) the PL (λ ex = 337 nm ) spectra of SLPO : x Ce 3 + (x = 0.01 , 0.05, 0.07, 0.12, and 0.17) at room temperature. Inset (up left): Cell volumes of SLPO: x Ce 3 + (0.01 ≤ x ≤ 0.17) as function of Ce 3 + concentration. Inset (up right): the relationship between the emission peak with the intensity and the Ce 3 + concentration in SLPO : x Ce 3 + .
Fig. 7. (Color online) Normalized (a) PL and (b) PLE spectra of SLPO : 0.01 Ce 3 + excited and monitored at different wavelengths.
Fig. 8. (Color online) PL spectra of (a) SLPO : 0.05 Eu 3 + (λ ex = 394 nm ) and (b) SLPO : 0.07 Tb 3 + (λ ex = 379 nm ) at different temperatures, inset: the temperature dependence of the integrated emission intensity; (c) the PL spectra of SLPO : 0.12 Ce 3 + at different temperatures (λ ex = 337 nm ); (d) the activation plot for thermal quenching of SLPO : 0.12 Ce 3 + , inset: temperature dependence of the integrated emission intensity.
Fig. 9. SEM images of (a) SLPO : 0.05 Eu 3 + ; (b) SLPO : 0.07 Tb 3 + and (c) SLPO : 0.12 Ce 3 + phosphors.
Fig. 10. CIE chromaticity diagram for SLPO : 0.05 Eu 3 + (Point 1), SLPO : 0.07 Tb 3 + (Point 2) and SLPO : 0.12 Ce 3 + excited under different wavelengths (Points 3–7); insets: the corresponding digital photographs of (a) SLPO : 0.05 Eu 3 + and (b) SLPO : 0.07 Tb 3 + under 254 nm ultraviolet lamp irradiation; and (c) SLPO : 0.12 Ce 3 + under 365 nm ultraviolet lamp irradiation.
Table1. CIE Coordinates, Peak Emission Wavelength of PL Spectra for Eu3+, Tb3+, and Ce3+-Doped SLPO Samples
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Ju Cheng, Jia Zhang, Hongchao Zhang, Sardar Maryam, Xintian Bian, Zhonghua Shen, Xiaowu Ni, Jian Lu. Synthesis and photoluminescence properties of Sr4La(PO4)3O:RE3+(RE=Eu/Tb/Ce) phosphors[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2017, 15(12): 121602.