Spectroscopic investigation of the novel orange-red phosphor Ca3La2W2O12:Sm3+ with the high color purity for w-LED applications

A series of novel orange-red emitting tungstate phosphors, Ca 3 La 2 W 2 O 12 (CLWO): x Sm 3+ (0.005 ≤  x  ≤ 0.30) were successfully prepared through the solid-state method at high temperature. The space group is hexagonal R 3 ‾ m . Under 600 nm monitoring, a large charge transfer band from 250 to 340 nm composed of the electron transition of O 2- –Sm 3+ and O 2- –W 6+ and represented the strongest excitation at 300 nm. CLWO:Sm 3+ emitted orange-red light at 600 nm ( 4 G 5/2 – 6 H 7/2 ) under the strongest excitation of 300 nm. The intensity ratio of the electric-dipole and magnetic-dipole of all the samples were bigger than 1. With the Sm 3+ -doped concentration increasing, the upward tendency of ratio values originated from the increased degree of lattice distortion . The calculated R c (21.32 Å) and Q (3.78) represented the dipole–dipole interaction to account for the concentration quenching. With the temperature changing from 300 to 400 K, the chromaticity coordinates of samples just have a tiny difference (Δ x  = 1.02 × 10 −4 , Δ y  = 1.01 × 10 −4 ). The thermal activation energy was calculated to be 0.42 eV and T 0.5 > 480 K. The color purity of all the phosphors reached 98.9%. Ultimately, a white light-emitting diode (w-LED) was fabricated by coating trichromatic (red, blue, and green) phosphors on a near-ultraviolet chip. The fabricated w-LED revealed a high color rendering index (R a  = 91, R 9  = 41) and a good chromaticity coordinate (0.320, 0.363) in the white area. Thus, these orange-red phosphors CLWO:Sm 3+ with high thermal stability and high color purity can be potentially used in w-LED applications.