A series of controllable emissions SrWO4 :Eu3+ and charge-compensated SrWO4 : Eum3+ (m = 0.01 or 0.20) phosphors was successfully prepared via a simple co-precipitation method. The energy transfer mechanism was studied based on the Huang's theory. A low magnitude of Huang-Rhys factor (10-2 ) was calculated using phonon sideband spectra. The Judd-Ofelt parameters Ωλ (λ = 2, 4 and 6) of Eu3+ -activated SrWO4 doped with charge compensation were obtained. The calculated Commission Internationale de l'Eclairage chromaticity coordinates were found to be about (0.67, 0.33) for SrWO4 : Eu0.203+ and charge-compensated SrWO4 : Eu0.203+ phosphors, which coincided with the National Television Standard Committee system standard values for red. A white light emission was obtained under 362 nm excitation. The correlated color temperature was computed by a simple equation to characterize light sources. Thus, warm white light-emitting diodes with higher Ra can be constructed by combining as-prepared high efficiency, low correlated color temperature and high color purity phosphor.
Keywords: Huang-Rhys factor; Judd-Ofelt parameters; color purity; energy transfer phosphor; warm white LED.
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