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An auto-combustion synthesis and luminescence properties of polyhedral YVO4: Ln3+ (Ln = Eu, Sm, Yb/Er, Yb/Tm) microcrystals

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Polyhedral YVO4: Ln3+ (Ln = Eu, Sm, Yb/Er, Yb/Tm) microcrystals were fabricated via a facile sol–gel auto-combustion method using NH4VO3 as vanadium source in the presence of glycine. The X-ray diffraction patterns were well matched with pure YVO4, and the doped lanthanide ions did not change the host structure. The YVO4 microcrystals annealed from 500 to 1000 °C for 3 h were polyhedral and ranged in particle size from 0.1 to 2 µm. The luminescence properties of YVO4: Ln3+ (Ln = Eu, Sm, Yb/Er, Yb/Tm) samples indicated that all of the YVO4: Ln3+ samples exhibited typical emission spectra of Ln3+ cations, suggesting that the Ln3+ cations were well doped in YVO4 and could be excited efficiently through matrix absorption. In addition, the corresponding mechanisms of emission and energy transfer in the YVO4: Ln3+ are proposed.

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This work was supported by Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51701098) and General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of the People’s Republic of China (No. 2017IK197). This work was also sponsored by the Opening Project of State Key Laboratory of Crystal Material in Shandong University (KF1706) and K.C. Wong Magna Foundation in Ningbo University.

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    Shanshan Yang, Linwen Jiang, Jiangtao Li, Xin Chen, Mingyu He & Hongbing Chen

  2. State Key Laboratory of Crystal Materials, Shandong University, Jinan, 250100, People’s Republic of China

    Linwen Jiang

  3. Shenzhen Customs, Industrial Products Inspection Technology Center, Shenzhen, 518067, People’s Republic of China

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Yang, S., Jiang, L., Feng, J. et al. An auto-combustion synthesis and luminescence properties of polyhedral YVO4: Ln3+ (Ln = Eu, Sm, Yb/Er, Yb/Tm) microcrystals. Journal of Materials Research 34, 3636–3644 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1557/jmr.2019.285

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