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An Investigation on the Luminescence and Ce3+ → Eu2+ Energy Transfer in Ca9Y(PO4)7:Ce3+,Eu2+ Phosphor

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JOURNAL OF THE ELECTROCHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 158, Issue 11, Pages J341-J344

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ELECTROCHEMICAL SOC INC
DOI: 10.1149/2.029111jes

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  1. National Science Council of Taiwan (R.O.C.) [NSC98-2113-M-009-005-MY3]

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A series of Ce3+- and Eu2+-coactivated Ca9Y(PO4)(7) phosphors were synthesized by high temperature solid-state reactions. The Ca9Y(PO4)(7):Ce3+, Eu2+ phosphor showed two emission bands under 292 nm excitation:the one observed at 342 nm was attributed to the 4f(0)5d(1) -> 4f(1) transition of Ce3+ ion emission, and the other found at 492 nm was assigned to the 4 f(6)5d(1) -> 4f(7) transition of Eu2+ ions. Through an effective resonance-type energy transfer, the Ca9Y(PO4)(7):Ce3+, Eu2+ phosphors exhibit a systematically varied hues from ultraviolet to blue-greenish and the relative intensity of ultraviolet and blue-greenish emissions can be tuned by properly tuning the relative dopant composition of Ce3+/Eu2+. The energy transfer from a sensitizer Ce3+ to an activator Eu2+ in Ca9Y(PO4)(7) host matrix was studied and demonstrated to be a resonant type via a dipole-dipole mechanism based on the decay lifetime analysis. Furthermore, we have calculated the critical distance for Ce3+ -> Eu2+ energy transfer to be about 30.7 angstrom by both concentration quenching and spectral overlap methods. (C) 2011 The Electrochemical Society. [DOI: 10.1149/2.029111jes] All rights reserved.

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