Thermally stable and highly efficient red-emitting Eu3+-doped Cs3GdGe3O9 phosphors for WLEDs:non-concentration quenching and negative thermal expansion

• 作者: Peipei Dang Guogang Li Xiaohan Yun Qianqian Zhang Dongjie Liu Hongzhou Lian Mengmeng Shang Jun Lin
• 来源期刊: 光：科学与应用（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2021,（2）
• 所属期刊栏目: Articles
• 页码范围: 243-255
• 页数: 13页
• 语种: 英文

摘要

Red phosphor materials play a key role in improving the lighting and backlit display quality of phosphor-converted white light-emitting diodes (pc-WLEDs). However, the development of a red phosphor with simultaneous high efficiency, excellent thermal stability and high colour purity is still a challenge. In this work, unique non-concentration quenching in solid-solution Cs3Gd1?xGe3O9:xEu3+(CGGO:xEu3+) (x=0.1–1.0) phosphors is successfully developed to achieve a highly efficient red-emitting Cs3EuGe3O9 (CEGO) phosphor. Under the optimal 464 nm blue light excitation, CEGO shows a strong red emission at 611 nm with a high colour purity of 95.07％and a high internal quantum efficiency of 94％. Impressively, this red-emitting CEGO phosphor exhibits a better thermal stability at higher temperatures (175–250 °C,>90％) than typical red K2SiF6:Mn4+and Y2O3:Eu3+phosphors, and has a remarkable volumetric negative thermal expansion (coefficient of thermal expansion,α=?5.06 × 10?5/°C, 25–250 °C). By employing this red CEGO phosphor, a fabricated pc-WLED emits warm white light with colour coordinates (0.364, 0.383), a high colour rendering index (CRI=89.7), and a low colour coordinate temperature (CCT=4508 K). These results indicate that this highly efficient red-emitting phosphor has great potential as a red component for pc-WLEDs, opening a new perspective for developing new phosphor materials.