Journal of Materials Science

, Volume 52, Issue 12, pp 7605–7614 | Cite as

Improved luminescence properties and thermal stability of SrSi2O2N2:Eu2+ phosphor with single phase via the formation of Eu3+ on surface structure

  • Han Zhang
  • Zhiyuan Cheng
  • Yanjie Zhang
  • Zeqing Hu
  • Jingjie Yu
  • Nianyu Zou
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Abstract

The green-emitting SrSi2O2N2:Eu2+ phosphors with single phase have been successfully synthesized by a simple two-step method. During the first-step process, Sr2SiO4:Eu3+ precursor was formed and emitted red light under UV light excitation. The excessive amount of Si3N4 in reactants promoted the formation of pure SrSi2O2N2 phase when molar ratio of Si3N4/Sr2SiO4 was located in the range of 1.1–1.5. The luminescence intensities of SrSi2O2N2:Eu2+ phosphors were enhanced by Si3N4/Sr2SiO4 molar ratio of 1.1. Phase analysis, luminescence properties and thermal stability of the samples were intensively investigated by X-ray diffraction, SEM, XPS and TGA/DSC. The trivalent europium ions were identified by XPS results on the surface of as-synthesized SrSi2O2N2:Eu2+ particles with approximate theoretical atomic ratio of Eu/Sr, which prevent the further oxidation of Eu2+ to Eu3+ in the bulk structure and evidently improved the thermal stability of the phosphors. For the thermal oxidation mechanism, it was suggested that the oxidation of SrSi2O2N2 to form SrSiO3 layer firstly occurred on the surface after a calcination process in air.

Keywords

Thermal Oxidation Eu2O3 Correlate Color Temperature Green Phosphor Sr2SiO4 
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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the Excellent Talents Plan Project for Universities of Liaoning Province (LJQ2014055), the Open Project of Key Laboratory for Micro/Nano Technology and System of Liaoning Province (20140401), the General Project of Liaoning Provincial Education Department and the Start-up Funding for Doctoral researchers of Dalian Polytechnic University (61020726).

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Han Zhang
    • 1
  • Zhiyuan Cheng
    • 1
  • Yanjie Zhang
    • 1
  • Zeqing Hu
    • 1
  • Jingjie Yu
    • 1
  • Nianyu Zou
    • 1
  1. 1.Research Institute of PhotonicsDalian Polytechnic UniversityDalianChina

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