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MATERIALS
Volume 10, Issue 9, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ma10091059
Keywords
glass-ceramics; europium oxide; luminescence properties; Stark splitting; EuPO4 nanocrystals; antimony-germanate-silicate glass
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- National Science Center (Poland) [DEC-2012/07/B/ST8/04019]
- Bialystok University of Technology project [S/WE/4/2013]
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Technology of active glass-ceramics (GC) is an important part of luminescent materials engineering. The classic method to obtain GC is based on annealing of parent glass in proper temperature and different time periods. Generally, only the bulk materials are investigated as a starting host for further applications. However, the effect of an additional heat-treatment process on emission and structural properties during GC processing is omitted. Here, we focus on the possibility of obtaining transparent glass-ceramic doped with europium ions directly with a melt-quenching method. The influence of phosphate concentration (up to 10 mol %) on the inversion symmetry of local environment of Eu3+ ions in antimony-germanate-silicate (SGS) glass has been investigated. The Stark splitting of luminescence spectra and the local asymmetry ratio estimated by relation of (D-5(0) -> F-7(2))/(D-5(0) -> F-7(1)) transitions in fabricated glass confirms higher local symmetry around Eu3+ ions. Based on XRD and SEM/EDX measurements, the EuPO4 nano- and microcrystals with monoclinic geometry were determined. Therefore, in our experiment, we confirmed possibility of one-step approach to fabricate crystalline structures (glass-ceramic) in Eu-doped SGS glass without additional annealing process.
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