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Highly efficient photostimulated luminescence of Pb2+doped SrAl2O4: Eu2+, Dy3+ borate glass for long-term stable optical information storage

Journal

JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN CERAMIC SOCIETY
Volume 42, Issue 12, Pages 5065-5073

Publisher

ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jeurceramsoc.2022.05.033

Keywords

SrAl2O4:Eu2+, Dy3+; Borate glass; Photostimulated luminescence; Information storage

Funding

  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China [62075204, U1909211]
  2. Zhe-jiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China [LZ22E020001]

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By doping Pb2+ ions into SrAl2O4:Eu2+, Dy3+ borate glass, the luminescence behavior can be greatly influenced, resulting in a controllable property between long persistent luminescence and photostimulated luminescence. This discovery has potential applications in anti-counterfeiting and information storage.
Despite the transformative role in society, information storage materials remain vulnerable to the corrosion by water, oxygen and heat, while topological engineering of glass provides an attractive solution to this tricky problem. Here, a considerable discovery is reported that the doping of Pb2+ ions could greatly affect the luminescence behavior of SrAl2O4:Eu2+, Dy3+ borate glass, resulting in a controllable property between long persistent luminescence and photostimulated luminescence. Specifically, high concentration Pb doped samples featuring the deeper continuously distributed trap levels with 0.97-1.47 eV performed highly efficient photo stimulated luminescence. In other words, the ultraviolet-visible photons could be written in the deeper traps and then read out under the stimulation of a 980 nm near-infrared laser. From the combined structural and luminescence characterizations, it was speculated that the deeper trap originated from the increase of oxygen vacancies at defect levels. The practical anti-counterfeiting application was successfully realized based on this material with superior photostimulated luminescence phenomenon, which rendered the SrAl2O4:Eu2+, Dy3+ borate glass shine in a new field such as anti-counterfeiting, yet as a promising candidate for information storage application.

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