Luminescent properties in relation to controllable phase and morphology of LuBO 3:Eu 3+ nano/microcrystals synthesized by hydrothermal approach

Yanping Li, Jiahua Zhang, Xia Zhang, Yongshi Luo, Shaozhe Lu, Xinguang Ren, Xiaojun Wang, Lingdong Sun, Chunhua Yan

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Abstract

The calcite and vaterite type LuBO 3:Eu 3+ nano/microcrystals with various morphologies were synthesized by the hydrothermal (HT) approach through controlling the pH values of the precursor solutions. The calcite type LuBO 3:Eu 3+ shows the dominant magnetic dipole 5D 0- 7F 1 emission due to S 6inversion symmetry of Lu. It also shows a symmetrical O-Eu charge transfer (CT) excitation band, which, however, is asymmetrical and broad in the material prepared by the solid-state (SS) reaction method. The effect of the residual OH - groups introduced in HT synthesis is discussed on O-Lu exciton annihilation and local environment distortion. Two different Eu 3+ centers, one of which is with inversion symmetry, are observed in vaterite type LuBO 3:Eu 3+. The HT sample with nanostructures, such as vaterite type flowerlike LuBO 3:Eu 3+, demonstrates a red shift of the CT band and appearance of a long excitation tail at the long wavelength side of the CT band. XRD, selective excitation and fluorescence decay measurements indicate that the red shift is induced by an increase of crystal lattice parameters, and the excitation tail is responsible to the Eu 3+ ions located at lower symmetric sites. These sites are attributed to the positions at or close to the surface of the nanostructures in the sample. As the lower symmetric sites are selectively excited, the red emission of 5D 0- 7F 2 of Eu 3+ enhanced twice relatively to the orange emission of 5D 0- 7F 1, exhibiting superior color chromaticity in red for display application. The luminescence properties of interior Eu 3+ and outside Eu 3+ are studied and discussed in detail.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)468-475
Number of pages8
JournalChemistry of Materials
Volume21
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 10 2009

Scopus Subject Areas

  • General Chemistry
  • General Chemical Engineering
  • Materials Chemistry

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