Preparation of Ba
3
Si
6
O
9
N
4
:Eu
2+
Phosphor and
Characterization of their Luminescence Properties
LUO Dong, WANG Le*, LI Yang-Hui, XU Guo-Tang, PAN Hua-Yan, LIANG Pei,
CHEN Ru-Biao, ZHANG Hong
Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Devices,
College of Optics and Electronic Science and Technology, China Jiliang University, Hangzhou 310018, China
*Corresponding author. Tel.: 0571-86875686 E-mail address: kingbo66@163.com
Abstract—Bluish-green Ba
3
Si
6
O
9
N
4
:Eu
2+
phosphors were
synthesized by two-step synthesis processes using BaSiO
3
as a
precursor. The samples were prepared by high-temperature
solid-state reaction, and investigated by X-ray diffraction
(XRD) and fluorescence spectrometer photometer (PL)
respec-tively. The results of XRD illustrated that two-step
method was beneficial to improve phases of Ba
3
Si
6
O
9
N
4
:Eu
2+
phosphor and obtain higher crystallinity. The maximum
luminescent intensi-ty of two-step process and high
temperature solid-state method was obtained, when Eu
2+
doping amount was 9%. After calcul-ation, the distance of
quenching was determined at 18.71 Ǻ. Compared the emission
spectrum of two-step process(the emission peak at 498 nm)
with high-temperature solid phase method (the emission peak
at 517 nm) under the excitation of 330 nm, an apparent
electrophoresis of the blue shift was existed. And the emission
peak of two-step process was closer to the value of theoretical
(480nm). The results of energy spectrum analysis clarified that
the elements content of two-step method was closer to the
theoretical stoichiometry ratio, which indicated that two-step
preparation of Ba
3
Si
6
O
9
N
4
: Eu
2+
phosphor was an effective
way to reduce the lattice defects.
Keywords—High temperature solid-state reaction;
Oxynitride phosphor; Concentration quenching; Lattice defects
I. INTRODUCTION
White light-emitting diodes (White LEDs) is expected to
be one of the new solid-state light sources owing to their
many advantages in energy efficiency, environment friendly
and long lifetime compared to traditional light sources.
Currently, the commercialized White LEDs are mainly
fab-ricated by blue-emitting chips covered with phosphor
YAG: Ce
3+
.However, low emission intensity in the red area
of this phosphor results in low color rendering index
[1-3]
.Excited by ultraviolet chip tricolor (red, green, blue)
phosphors to obtain the white LED can effectively improve
the performance of the light emitting phosphors
[4]
.
In the three-color phosphor, the silicon nitrogen-based
compounds is regarded as the new ideal material for the
preparation of White LEDs
[5-7]
due to their excellent
properties, such as outstanding chemical stability, wide
spec-tral range and so on. Common silicon nitride-based
phosph-ors are MSi
2
O
2
N
2
(M=Ca,Sr,Ba)
[8-11]
, SiAlON
[12]
,
M
2
Si
5
N
8
(M=Ca, Sr,Ba)
[13-15]
, Ba
3
Si
6
O
9
N
4
[16]
and so on. The
tradition-al method for producing silicon nitride-based
phosphors is high-temperature solid-phase method, but
serious agglome-ration and low purity existed, which
greatly affect phos-phors’ crystallinity and luminescent
properties
[17]
. Further-more, the phosphors synthesized of
two-step approach by previously synthetic precursor
(silicates), and then the final product is obtained, which
cause the crystallinity and lumin-escent properties of the
phosphors can be improved. Yun Bong-Goo
[18]
successfully
synthesized the BaSi
2
O
2
N
2
: Eu
2+
phosphor by two-step
approach with Ba
2
SiO
4
as a precursor. According to his
research, the crystallinity and the emission intensity had
been improved. Fang Ying-Chien
[19]
studied the two-step
preparation technology of the SrSi
2
O
2
N
2
:Eu
2+
phosphors
and found that two-step can effectively improve the purity of
the phosphor. The color-rending index of White LEDs
fabricated by the MSi
2
O
2
N
2
(M=Ca,Sr,Ba) phosphors
significantly reduced at low temperature, but the Ba
3
Si
6
O
9
N
4
phosphors began to attract more and more scholars’ attention
due to their high stability and high color temperature.
Currently, few researches focus on Ba
3
Si
6
O
9
N
4
phosp-hors. In order to explore the emitting characteristics of
the Ba
3
Si
6
O
9
N
4
phosphors prepared by two-step method, it
was studied that the Ba
3
Si
6
O
9
N
4
phosphor was prepared by
two-step method with BaSiO
3
as a precursor in this paper.
And this phosphor has high crystallinity, high color
temperature and high luminous efficiency. Then, it is
necessary to study the effect of different doping
concentration on the luminescence properties of phosphors
and compare the difference of the phosphors prepared by
traditional high-temperature solid-phase method and
two-step method.
II. EXPERIMENTAL
A. Preparation of Ba
3
Si
6
O
9
N
4
:Eu
2+
Phosphor
Ba
3
Si
6
O
9
N
4
:Eu
2+
was prepared by two-step method using
BaSiO
3
as a precursor. The raw material of BaCO
3
(99.9%)
2014 International Conference on Manipulation, Manufacturing and Measurement on the Nanoscale (3M-NANO)
27-31 October 2014, Taipei
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