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JOURNAL OF LUMINESCENCE
Volume 129, Issue 10, Pages 1181-1185Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jlumin.2009.05.020
Keywords
Yttrium vanadate; Europium; Photoluminescence; Phosphor; Pechini process
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- National Science Council of the Republic of China [NSC96-2622-E-150-034-CC3]
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A sol-gel technique emphasizing the Pechini process has been employed for the preparation of nano-crystal Eu3+-doped YVO4 phosphor. The precursor powders were heated at 800 degrees C for 3 h to obtain good crystallinity with better luminescence. XRD results indicate that the second phase is not presented when the Eu3+ ion concentration is increased up to 50 mol%. The absorption and photoluminescent (PL) studies indicated that the energy is absorbed first by the host and then transferred to the emitting level of the Eu3+ ions. Excitation at 318 nm in terms of Eu3+ concentrations in YVO4 powders shows that the YVO4 phosphors display bright red luminescence at about 618 nm belonging to the D-5(0) -> F-7(2) electric dipole transition, and a weak band in the orange region of the D-5(0) -> F-7(1) transition at 594 nm. In addition, the time-resolved D-5(0) -> F-7(2) transition presents a single-exponential decay behavior, revealing the decay mechanism of the D-5(0) -> F-7(2) transition is a single decay component between Eu3+ ions only. The saturation of the emission intensity excited by the CTS when the Eu3+ concentration is 10 mol%. The concentration quenching is active when the Eu3+ concentration is larger than 10 mol%, and the critical distance is about 5.75 angstrom. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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