Journal
CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS
Volume 23, Issue 15, Pages 3442-3448Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/cm2004227
Keywords
upconversion; NaYF4:Er3+; Yb3+; high pressure; luminescence; multisites; site selective spectroscopy
Funding
- Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion (MICINN) [MAT2008-06873-C02-01, BES-2009-013434]
- MALTA-CONSOLIDER INGENIO Project [CSD2007-00045]
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Site-selective spectroscopy in hexagonal beta-NaYF4:Er3+,Yb3+ has revealed different environments for Er3+ ions (multisite formation). The low-temperature S-4(3/2) -> (I15/2Er3+)-I-4 green emission depends on the excitation wavelength associated with the F-4(7/2) Er3+ level. We have studied the effect of hydrostatic pressure on the green, red, and blue Er3+ emission upon NIR excitation at similar to 980 nm, in order to establish the role played by energy resonance conditions and the multiple Er3+ sites due to the disordered structure for the upconversion (UC) process (energy tuning). The variation of photoluminescence spectra and lifetimes as a function of pressure and temperature reveals that the origin of the high green UC efficiency of the beta-NaYF4:Er3+,Yb3+ compound is mainly due to the multisite distribution, and the low phonon energy of the host lattice.
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