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Luminescence properties of a green-emitting Eu2+-doped Sr-containing SiAlON phosphors by gas pressure sintering

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A green-emitting platelet Eu2+ doped SiAlON phosphor with a composition of Sr6Si25.6Al6.4N41.6O4.4 is developed by gas pressure sintering method at 1800 °C and 0.5 MPa of N2 for 10 h, which is highly luminescent under the excitation of ultraviolet to blue light and shows green emission, peaking around 510 nm with the FWHM of 65 nm, the emission is ascribed to the 4f65d1–4f7 transition of Eu2+ ions. The phase purity and crystal structure are investigated in this work. Quenching concentration of the phosphors is found to be 0.03 mol fraction. The thermal quenching properties of the green phosphors with different Eu2+ concentrations are also investigated. Better thermal stabilities can be obtained with lower Eu2+ concentration, the emission intensity at 200 °C remains 68 % of that measured at room temperature when Eu2+ concentration is 0.03, which is much better than standard orthosilicate phosphors. The internal and external quantum efficiencies of the green phosphor are 85 and 64 % upon the 460 nm excitation. The interesting properties of the phosphor make it a competitive candidate for UV or blue chip based white LEDs.

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The work is financially supported from the National Key Basic Research Program of China (2014CB643801) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (51102021, 51302016).

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  1. College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, 410083, China

    Chunlei Zhao, Qian Ma & Hongqi Ye

  2. National Engineering Research Center for Rare Earth Materials, General Research Institute for Nonferrous Metals, Grirem Advanced Materials Co., Ltd., Beijing, 100088, China

    Chunlei Zhao, Qian Ma, Ronghui Liu, Huibing Xu, Yunsheng Hu & Yuanhong Liu

  3. Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100088, China

    Shifeng Jin

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Zhao, C., Ma, Q., Liu, R. et al. Luminescence properties of a green-emitting Eu2+-doped Sr-containing SiAlON phosphors by gas pressure sintering. J Mater Sci: Mater Electron 26, 3805–3812 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-015-2906-6

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