Structure, luminescence properties and energy transfer of terbium and samarium co-doped barium based apatite phosphor with tunable emission colour

Kun Nie; Ranran Zhou; Chi-An Cheng; Xiuqiang Duan; Ziyao Hu; Lefu Mei; Haikun Liu; Yuanyuan Zhang; Luoxin Wang; Hua Wang; Xiaoxue Ma

doi:10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e12566

Structure, luminescence properties and energy transfer of terbium and samarium co-doped barium based apatite phosphor with tunable emission colour

Heliyon. 2022 Dec 22;8(12):e12566. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e12566. eCollection 2022 Dec.

Authors

Kun Nie^{1

2}, Ranran Zhou¹, Chi-An Cheng³, Xiuqiang Duan¹, Ziyao Hu¹, Lefu Mei⁴, Haikun Liu⁵, Yuanyuan Zhang⁵, Luoxin Wang¹, Hua Wang¹, Xiaoxue Ma¹

Affiliations

¹ State Key Laboratory of New Textile Materials & Advanced Processing Technology, Hubei Key Laboratory for New Textile Materials and Applications, School of Materials Science and Engineering,Wuhan Textile University, Wuhan, 430200, PR China.
² Key Laboratory of Testing and Tracing of Rare Earth Products for State Market Regulation, Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, Ganzhou, 341000, PR China.
³ Department of Bioengineering, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles 90095, CA, USA.
⁴ Beijing Key Laboratory of Materials Utilization of Nonmetallic Minerals and Solid Wastes, National Laboratory of Mineral Materials, School of Materials Sciences and Technology, China University of Geosciences(Beijing), Beijing 100083, PR China.
⁵ Department of Energy and Chemical Engineering, Dongguan University of Technology, Dongguan 523808, PR China.

Abstract

Ba₂La_2.85-x Tb_0.15Sm _x (SiO₄)₃F (BLSOF:0.15Tb³⁺,xSm³⁺) is a polychromatic phosphor with an apatite structure that was manufactured through a solid-state process. X-ray diffraction (XRD) and a scanning electron microscope (SEM) were utilized to examine the phosphor's phase and morphology. Using the Rietveld technique, the as-prepared phosphor structure was validated. By progressively raising the doping contents of the samarium, the phosphors emitted multicoloured luminescence from short to long wavelengths as indicated by analysis of the optical performance. Overall, the data provide strong evidence that the transfer of energy in BLSOF:0.15Tb³⁺,xSm³⁺ is responsible for the phosphor's colour-tunable property.

Keywords: High-temperature solid-state method; Luminescence property; Photoluminescence; Rare earth; Rare earth doped phosphor.