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Tunable luminescence and energy transfer properties based on La2O3-P2O5:Dy3+/Tm3+ glasses

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The white-LED material Dy3+/Tm3+ co-doped phosphate glass was prepared by a conventional melting method. The energy transfer in the two rare earth ions was supposed by changing the concentration of one doping ion and was further demonstrated by the fluorescence lifetime. The energy level transition mechanism between the rare earth ions was analyzed using the Inokuti–Hirayama theory. There were two kinds of energy transfer mechanisms from the dipole–quadrupole interaction (Dy3+ → Tm3+) and the quadrupole–quadrupole interaction (Tm3+→Dy3+). The luminescence color was tuned from a blue to a near standard white light emission using 350 nm excitation and adjusting the rare earth ion doping ratio. The results show that 15La2O3-85P2O5:xDy2O3-yTm2O3 glass is a promising UV-excited white photodiode material.

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This work was supported by the Science-Technology Creative Foundation for Young Scientists of Harbin City (No. 2015RAQXJ055), partially supported by China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Grant No. 2013M531013), by the Foundation of Guilin University of Electronic Technology (No. HKY19002), and by the 111 Project (B13015) to the Harbin Engineering University.

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Zhang, T., Wang, J., Xin, Y. et al. Tunable luminescence and energy transfer properties based on La2O3-P2O5:Dy3+/Tm3+ glasses. J Mater Sci: Mater Electron 30, 12100–12106 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-019-01567-8

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