Journal
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
Volume 10, Issue 48, Pages 41512-41524Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.8b15607
Keywords
Cr3+; Bi2Ga4O9; spectroscopy; crystal field; ratiometric luminescent thermometer; absolute sensitivity
Funding
- MEXT [16H06441]
- [17F17761]
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The increasing interest in the development of ratiometric optical thermal sensors has led to a wide variety of new systems with promising properties. Among them, singly-doped ratiometric thermometers were recently demonstrated to be particularly reliable. With the aim to discuss the development of an ideal optical thermal sensor, a combined experimental and theoretical insight into the spectroscopy of the Bi2Ga4O9:Cr3+ system is reported showing the importance of an insightful analysis in a wide temperature range. Low-temperature photoluminescence analysis (from 10 K) and the temperature dependence of the lifetime investigation, together with the crystal field analysis and the modeling of the thermal quenching process, allow the estimation of key parameters such as the Debye temperature (cutoff frequency), the Huang-Rhys parameter, and the energy barrier between E-2(g) and T-4(2g). Additionally, by considering the reliable class of singly-doped ratiometric thermometers based on a couple of excited states obeying the Boltzmann law, the important role played by the absolute sensitivity was discussed and the great potential of Cr3+ singly-activated systems was demonstrated. The results may provide new guidelines for the design of reliable optical thermometers with outstanding and robust performances.
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