Tunable emission from green to red in the GdSr2AlO5:Tb3+,Eu3+ phosphor via efficient energy transfer |
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Authors: | Yu Zhang Xuejie Zhang Haoran Zhang Lingling Zheng Yuan Zeng Yu Lin Yingliang Liu Bingfu Lei |
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Affiliation: | Guangdong Provincial Engineering Technology Research Center for Optical Agricultural, College of Materials and Energy, South China Agriculture University, Guangzhou 510642 P. R. China, |
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Abstract: | Herein, a series of GdSr2AlO5:Tb3+,Eu3+ phosphors were successfully synthesized through a high temperature solid-state reaction, and their crystal structures as well as photoluminescence properties were investigated in detail. Compared to the intense emission of 5D0 → 7F1 or 5D0 → 7F2 transition of Eu3+, another strong emission corresponding to 5D0 → 7F4 was observed. Concentration quenching is not obvious in Tb3+ or Eu3+-doped GdSr2AlO5 because structure isolation and energy transfer (ET) of Gd3+ → Eu3+ and Gd3+ → Tb3+ were found. Moreover, the energy transfer process from Tb3+ to Eu3+ was verified by the overlap of luminescence spectra and the variation of lifetime. Energy transfer mechanism was determined to be a dipole–dipole interaction, and ET efficiency as well as quantum efficiency were also obtained. Moreover, the emission color of GdSr2AlO5:Tb3+,Eu3+ can be tuned from green to red by altering the ratio of Tb3+/Eu3+. These results indicate that the GdSr2AlO5:Tb3+,Eu3+ phosphor is a promising single-component white light-emitting phosphor.The emission spectra of GdSr2AlO5:2%Tb3+,x%Eu3+ (x = 0, 0.5, 1, 2, 3, and 5) under 275 nm excitation. (b) Variation tendency of the green emission of Tb3+ and the red emission of Eu3+. |
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