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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 134, Issue 34, Pages 14108-14117Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ja304754b
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- National Science Council of the Republic of China, Taiwan [NSC 97-2113-M-002-012-MY3, NSC 97-3114-M-002-005]
- National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center, Taiwan
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (Hsinchu, Taiwan)
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The orange-red emitting phosphors based on M2Si5N8:Eu (M = Sr, Ba) are widely utilized in white light-emitting diodes (WLEDs) because of their improvement of the color rendering index (CRI), which is brilliant for warm white light emission. Nitride-based phosphors are adopted in high-performance applications because of their excellent thermal and chemical stabilities. A series of nitridosilicate phosphor compounds, M2-xSi5N8:Eu-x (M = Sr, Ba), were prepared by solid-state reaction. The thermal degradation in air was only observed in Sr2-xSi5N8:Eu-x with x = 0.10, but it did not appear in Sr2-xSi5N8:Eu-x with x = 0.02 and Ba analogue with x = 0.10. This is an unprecedented investigation to study this phenomenon in the stable nitrides. The crystal structural variation upon heating treatment of these compounds was carried out using the in situ XRD measurements. The valence of Eu ions in these compounds was determined by electron spectroscopy for chemical analysis (ESCA) and X-ray absorption near-edge structure (XANES) spectroscopy. The morphology of these materials was examined by transmission electron microscopy (TEM). Combining all results, it is concluded that the origin of the thermal degradation in Sr2-xSi5N8:Eu-x with x = 0.10 is due to the formation of an amorphous layer on the surface of the nitride phosphor grain during oxidative heating treatment, which results in the oxidation of Eu ions from divalent to trivalent. This study provides a new perspective for the impact of the degradation problem as a consequence of heating processes in luminescent materials.
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