Crystal structures and enhancement of photoluminescence intensities by effective doping for lithium tantalate phosphors

Autor:	Koichiro Fukuda, Hiromi Nakano, Toru Asaka, Shohei Furuya, Hiroaki Ichioka
Rok vydání:	2015
Předmět:	Radiation Materials science Photoluminescence Inorganic chemistry Doping Analytical chemistry Phosphor Crystal structure Condensed Matter Physics chemistry.chemical_compound Octahedron chemistry Lithium tantalate General Materials Science Instrumentation Powder diffraction Excitation
Zdroj:	Powder Diffraction. 30:326-332
ISSN:	1945-7413 0885-7156
DOI:	10.1017/s0885715615000688
Popis:	Crystal structures of (Li0.925Eu3+0.025)TaO3, (Li0.968Eu3+0.032)(Ta0.81Ti0.19)O2.937, (Li0.967Sm3+0.033)(Ta0.89Ti0.11)O2.978, and (Li0.950Sm3+0.033Mg0.017)(Ta0.89Ti0.11)O2.987were investigated by X-ray powder diffraction. The initial structural parameters, taken from those of the isomorphous compound (Li0.977Eu3+0.023)(Ta0.89Ti0.11)O2.968(space groupR3candZ= 6), were refined by the Rietveld method. A pattern-fitting method based on the maximum-entropy method was subsequently used to determine the three-dimensional electron-density distributions (EDDs) that are free from the structural bias. We confirmed that the EDDs are in accord with the resulting structural models, each of which was composed of the [(Ta, Ti)O6] octahedron and [(Li, Eu, Sm, Mg)O12] polyhedron. We compared these polyhedra and found that the prominent difference among these compounds was the centroid-to-(Li, Eu, Sm, Mg) distance (eccentricity) of [(Li, Eu, Sm, Mg)O12]. The high correlation was demonstrated between the magnitude of eccentricity and photoluminescence intensity under near ultraviolet excitation.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
Externí odkaz:	https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::66a0b0bd8456bc5eda7c26caf3675df4 https://doi.org/10.1017/s0885715615000688 Zobrazit plný text záznamu