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DALTON TRANSACTIONS
Volume 43, Issue 25, Pages 9661-9668Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c4dt00223g
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- Science Fund for Creative Research Groups of the National Natural Science of China [21221061]
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A series of new phosphors Zn2(0.97-x)P2O7:0.06Tm(3+), 2xMn(2+) (0 <= x <= 0.05) were synthesized and their luminescence properties were investigated. The results showed that the defects in all the phosphors were related to Tm3+, and Mn2+ merely served as the emission centres. Tm3+ also acted as an emission centre and yielded blue phosphorescence corresponding to its characteristic f-f emissions in the phosphors where the Mn2+ concentration was low (x = 0.001), while in the phosphors with high concentrations of Mn2+ it mainly served as a defect by forming Tm-Zn. The electrons thermally released from defects selectively transferred to Mn2+ centres mainly through thermally-assisted tunnelling and this resulted in their red to near-infrared phosphorescence. By adjusting the ratio of Mn2+ to Tm3+ to control the spectral distribution, tunable long lasting phosphorescence from blue to near-infrared was achieved.
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