Brightly luminescent and color-tunable CaMoO4:RE3+ (RE = Eu, Sm, Dy, Tb) nanofibers synthesized through a facile route for efficient light-emitting diodes

One-dimensional CaMoO 4 :RE 3+ (RE = Eu, Sm, Dy, Tb) nanofibers were successfully synthesized through a facile supersaturated recrystallization process. These CaMoO 4 :Ln 3+ nanofibers have the length ranging from 40 to 70 nm and the width of nearly 2 nm. Under UV excitation, these single-doped CaMoO 4 nanofibers shown stronger emission, and the photoluminescence quantum efficiency is 25.7% (CaMoO 4 :Eu 3+ ), 22.4% (CaMoO 4 :Sm 3+ ), 23.2% (CaMoO 4 :Dy 3+ ) and 27.7% (CaMoO 4 :Tb 3+ ), respectively. Moreover, our work reveals that various emission colors can be obtained and tuned from pure red to delight green via co-doping Tb 3+ and Eu 3+ in the CaMoO 4 host, and the energy transfer properties from Tb 3+ to Eu 3+ are also demonstrated. Finally, we apply the green CaMoO 4 :Tb 3+ , red CaMoO 4 :Eu 3+ and white CaMoO 4 :0.05Tb 3+ , 0.02Eu 3+ for LED devices, and these nanofiber-based LEDs present high efficiency and stability, which indicates the promising application in future optoelectronic fields.