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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
Volume 6, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/srep34010
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- National Centre for Research and Development [PL-TWII/8/2015, PBS3/A5/48/2015]
- Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan [MOST 104-2113-M-002-012-MY3, 104-2923-M-002-007-MY3]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [NSFC 21301162]
- Ministry of Science and Higher Education [0271/IP3/2015/73]
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Spectroscopic properties of a series of (Sr0.98-xBaxEu0.02)Si2O2N2 (0 <= x <= 0.98) compounds has been studied under high hydrostatic pressure applied in a diamond anvil cell up to 200 kbar. At ambient pressure the crystal structures of (Sr0.98-xBaxEu0.02)Si2O2N2 (0 <= x <= 0.98) are related to the ratio of strontium to barium and three different phases exists: orthorhombic Pbcn(0.78 <= x <= 0.98), triclinic P1 (0 < x <= 0.65) and triclinic P1 (0.65 < x < 0.78). It was found that Eu2+ luminescence reveals abrupt changes under pressure (decay time, energy and shape) which indicate the variation of the local symmetry and crystal field strength in Eu2+ sites. These changes are attributed to the reversible pressure-induced structural phase transitions of triclinic (Sr0.98-xBaxEu0.02)Si2O2N2 into orthorhombic structure. Pressure in which phase transition occurs decreases linearly with increasing of Ba composition in (Sr0.98-xBaxEu0.02)Si2O2N2 series. Additionally, very different pressure shifts of the Eu2+ luminescence in different phases of (Sr0.98-xBaxEu0.02)Si2O2N2: Eu from -40 cm(-1)/kbar to 0 cm(-1)/kbar have been observed. This effect is explained by different interaction of the Eu2+ 5d electron with the second coordination sphere around the impurity cations.
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