Yaping You,Ya Zheng,Zesheng Pan,Yunluo Wang,Tianrui Zhou,Minghui Wang,Haijie Chen,Wan Jiang,Lianjun Wang
White light-emitting diode (WLED) has been widely used as solid-state lighting in recent years, with the advantages of energy saving, high luminous efficiency , and safety. Red phosphors are crucial to the color rendering index of WLED, and Eu 3+ -activated red phosphors can significantly improve the chromaticity performance of WLED. In this work, a series of new orange-red emitting BaLiZn 3 (PO 4 ) 3 : Eu 3+ phosphors were synthesized through high-temperature solid-state reaction method. The phase composition , crystal structure, morphology and photoluminescence properties of BaLiZn 3 (PO 4 ) 3 : Eu 3+ samples were investigated. The phosphors can be effectively excited by the violet light at 394 nm and emit orange-red lights corresponding to the electric dipole transition (5D 0 →7F 1 ) at 594 nm. The optimal doping concentration of Eu 3+ ions was about 5 mol%. The concentration quenching was caused by the electric dipole-dipole interaction between Eu 3+ ions. Temperature-dependent PL spectra indicate that BaLiZn 3 (PO 4 ) 3 : Eu 3+ has excellent emission and color stability at high temperatures. The color coordinates were calculated and fall in the orange-red luminescent area. The color purity is about 98.3 %, and the correlated color temperature is 1710K. These results indicate that the new orange-red phosphor BaLiZn 3 (PO 4 ) 3 : Eu 3+ has potential application prospects in WLED.
In this study, phosphate glasses embedded with Fe 2 O 3 quantum dots were prepared via a conventional melt quenching technology with further heat treatment. The effect of Fe 2 O 3 content on the structural, optical and magneto-optical properties was investigated. The results showed that the addition of Fe 2 O 3 had no obvious influence on the structure units that built up the host glass and the amorphous nature of glass. In the glass matrix , the existence of Fe 2 O 3 quantum dots was confirmed by high resolution transmission electron microscope . Meanwhile, optical study clearly demonstrated a red shift in optical cut-off wavelength resulted from the size quantization effect. The highest Verdet constant (22.33°/T-cm) was measured for the glass containing 1 mol% Fe 2 O 3 , which was ~ 7 times higher than that of the glass matrix. As the increment of Fe 2 O 3 contents, a phase evolution of Fe 2 O 3 quantum dots from amorphous phase to γ-Fe 2 O 3 phase was recorded due to the Ostwald Ripening effect. Interestingly, a concentration quenching phenomenon in Verdet constant was observed along with the phase evolution of Fe 2 O 3 quantum dots. When the content of Fe 2 O 3 is up to 2 mol%, the glass exhibited paramagnetism with the Verdet constant of − 2.833°/T-cm. This finding can provide a new idea for the development of quantum dot embedded magneto-optical glass.
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