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Large enhancement of upconversion luminescence in Er3+/In3+:Ba0.85Ca0.15TiO3 lead-free piezoelectric ceramics

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A series of In3+-doped Ba0.85Ca0.15TiO3:0.75%Er3+/xIn3+ (BCT:Er/xIn) lead-free piezoelectric ceramics with excellent upconversion luminescence were synthesized by the solid state reaction method. The effects of In3+ content on the crystal structure, ferroelectric, dielectric, piezoelectric, and upconversion luminescence properties were systematically studied. Under 980 nm excitation, a giant enhancement of the green emission (550 nm) by 10 times is achieved upon 2.5% mol In3+ doping, which is rarely observed in rare-earth ions-doped perovskite ferroelectric materials. The ultraviolet-visible-near infrared absorption measurements show that the In3+ doping may improve the dissolution of Er3+ ions and modify the isolate-/clustered-Er3+ ratio for x ≤ 2.5%, resulting in the enhancement of the absorption cross-section, thereby contributing to the enhancement of green luminescence. Unfortunately, the In3+ doping suppresses the ferroelectric and piezoelectric properties of the BCT:Er/xIn ceramics. This problem can be resolved by adding a small amount (1 mol%) of Yb3+ to the BCT:Er/xIn ceramics to restore their good ferroelectric and piezoelectric properties. Such In3+ and rare-earth ions co-doped ceramics with greatly enhanced upconversion luminescence and good ferroelectricity and piezoelectricity may have potential applications in electro-optical devices.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 51572278, 51502129, 11574214).

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  1. School of Physics, Southeast University, Nanjing, 211189, China

    Lei Guo & Shuai Dong

  2. State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200050, China

    Lei Guo, Zhi-Xue Xu, Meng Xu & Ren-Kui Zheng

  3. Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Material and Device, Department of Physics, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, 200234, China

    Jian-Min Yan & Fei-Fei Wang

  4. Department of Microelectronic Science and Engineering, Ningbo University, Ningbo, 315211, China

    Yuan-Yuan Zhang & Lai-Hui Luo

  5. Department of Applied Physics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

    Yu-Kuai Liu

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Guo, L., Yan, JM., Zhang, YY. et al. Large enhancement of upconversion luminescence in Er3+/In3+:Ba0.85Ca0.15TiO3 lead-free piezoelectric ceramics. J Mater Sci: Mater Electron 29, 9007–9015 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-018-8925-3

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