Commercial phosphors always require fewer impurities and higher crystallinity, but sometimes it is difficult or strict to synthesize a pure phase compound. Indeed, if the practical application is not influenced, it is...Commercial phosphors always require fewer impurities and higher crystallinity, but sometimes it is difficult or strict to synthesize a pure phase compound. Indeed, if the practical application is not influenced, it is acceptable to synthesize a kind of phosphors with diphase matrix that have similar structure and photoluminescence properties. In present work, we designed and synthesized a series of(1-x)BaMSiO4·xBa2 MSi2 O7:Eu(M = Zn2+, Mg2+) diphase phosphors which contained two phases BaMSiO4(hexagonal, P63) and Ba2 MSi2 O7(monoclinic, C2/c) by a high temperature solid-state reaction in air condition. The structures and luminescence properties related to the phase transform from BaMSiO4 to Ba2 MSi2 O7 were analyzed carefully. The results show that the self-reduction ability of Eu3+ is not the best in above four compounds, respectively. But it reaches the maximum and gets the green emission under the UV lamp when the matrix is in a proper ratio of two phases, which suggests that the heterostructure between the two crystals(BaMSiO4 and Ba2 MSi2 O7) improves the self-reduction process of the diphase.The possible mechanism of the tunable europium valence and the luminescent properties in(1-x)BaMSiO4·xBa2 MSi2 O7:Eu phosphors were discussed in detail.展开更多
基金Project supported by National Key Research and Development Program(2016YFB0302403)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(21571059)+1 种基金Hunan Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China(2015JJ2100)Hunan Provincial Innovation Foundation For Postgraduate(CX2017B180)
文摘Commercial phosphors always require fewer impurities and higher crystallinity, but sometimes it is difficult or strict to synthesize a pure phase compound. Indeed, if the practical application is not influenced, it is acceptable to synthesize a kind of phosphors with diphase matrix that have similar structure and photoluminescence properties. In present work, we designed and synthesized a series of(1-x)BaMSiO4·xBa2 MSi2 O7:Eu(M = Zn2+, Mg2+) diphase phosphors which contained two phases BaMSiO4(hexagonal, P63) and Ba2 MSi2 O7(monoclinic, C2/c) by a high temperature solid-state reaction in air condition. The structures and luminescence properties related to the phase transform from BaMSiO4 to Ba2 MSi2 O7 were analyzed carefully. The results show that the self-reduction ability of Eu3+ is not the best in above four compounds, respectively. But it reaches the maximum and gets the green emission under the UV lamp when the matrix is in a proper ratio of two phases, which suggests that the heterostructure between the two crystals(BaMSiO4 and Ba2 MSi2 O7) improves the self-reduction process of the diphase.The possible mechanism of the tunable europium valence and the luminescent properties in(1-x)BaMSiO4·xBa2 MSi2 O7:Eu phosphors were discussed in detail.