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JOURNAL OF LUMINESCENCE
Volume 241, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jlumin.2021.118479
Keywords
First-principles; Storage phosphors; Ce3+; Point defects
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [11974338, 11974022, 21805082]
- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2018YFA0306600]
- China-Poland Intergovernmental Science and Technology Cooperation Program [2020 [15]/10]
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First-principles calculations were used to study native point defects and dopants in Li(Y/Lu)SiO4, revealing their important roles in optical excitation energy storage properties. It was found that antisite defects and Sm3+ act as electron traps, providing suitable charge transition levels for information storage.
First-principles calculations are carried out to study the native point defects and dopants (Ce3+, Sm3+) in Li(Y/Lu)SiO4 for revealing the mechanism of the optical excitation energy storage properties. The calculated excitation and emission energies, the Stokes shifts as well as the positions of 4f and 5d levels of Ce3+ relative to host band edges show great consistent with the experimental results. The calculated formation energies reveal that the Li vacancies (V-Li) and the antisite defects Li-Y and Y-Li (or Li-Lu and Lu-Li) are always much more energetically favorable than Y or Lu vacancies (V-Y or V-Lu) and O vacancies (V-O) in Li(Y/Lu)SiO4 under reductive atmospheres. Moreover, according to the calculated charge transition levels of the native point defects and the dopants, the antisite defects Y-Li (or Lu-Li) and the dopants Sm3+ (Sm-Y or Sm-Lu) are deemed as electron traps that provide suitable charge transition levels for information storage in Li(Y/Lu)SiO4. Based on our calculations, a mechanism diagram of charge carrier storage and recombination during irradiation and thermal or optical readout is constructed for the storage phosphors Li(Y/Lu)SiO4:Ce3+,Sm3+.
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