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Synthesis and tunable blue–green color emission and energy transfer of Ce3+, Tb3+ co-doped BaZrSi3O9 phosphors

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Utilizing energy transfer process, Ce3+, Tb3+ co-doped BaZrSi3O9 (BZS) phosphors have been successfully prepared via solid state reaction process. The phase structure, photoluminescence properties, decay curves, thermal stability, and the energy transfer mechanism were investigated in this paper. The critical distance calculated by quenching concentration method was 8.84 Å, and the energy transfer process from Ce3+ to Tb3+ in BZS:Ce3+/Tb3+ phosphors had been demonstrated to be a resonant type via a dipole–quadrupole mechanism. The emission colors of the phosphors could be tuned from blue (0.1625, 0.1261) to green (0.2979, 0.5473) through the corresponding Ce3+ to Tb3+ energy transfer. Moreover, thermal quenching luminescence results revealed that BZS:Ce3+, Tb3+ exhibited good thermal stability. The Tb3+ intensity of BZS:0.04Ce3+, 0.02Tb3+ sample showed about 60.88 % of its initial emission intensity at room temperature. The above results indicate that the phosphors may be potentially used as single-component blue–green emission phosphors for application in light emitting device.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 21571162), the Guangdong Province Enterprise-University-Academy Collaborative Project (No. 2012B091100474) and Hubei Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (2014CFB635).

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  1. Engineering Research Center of Nano-Geomaterials of Ministry of Education, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, 430074, China

    Shiqi Liu, Yujun Liang, Yingli Zhu, Rui Xu & Shijin Wang

  2. Faculty of Materials Science and Chemistry, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, 430074, China

    Shiqi Liu, Yujun Liang, Yingli Zhu, Rui Xu & Shijin Wang

  3. Hubei Key Laboratory of Low Dimensional Optoelectronic Materials and Devices, Hubei University of Arts and Science, Xiangyang, 441053, Hubei, China

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Liu, S., Liang, Y., Zhu, Y. et al. Synthesis and tunable blue–green color emission and energy transfer of Ce3+, Tb3+ co-doped BaZrSi3O9 phosphors. J Mater Sci: Mater Electron 27, 12222–12232 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-016-5378-4

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