Published August 2, 2005 | Version v1
Journal article

Influence of processing conditions on synthesis and photoluminescence of Eu3+-activated strontium stannate phosphors

  • 1. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, No. 1, Ta-Hsueh Road, Tainan 70101, Taiwan (China)

Description

The synthesis and photoluminescence (PL) properties of strontium stannate crystals doped with europium grown by mechanical activation in a high-energy vibro-mill have been investigated. The characteristics of Sr2SnO4:Eu3+ powders were found to depend on the heating conditions and the amounts of europium ions. The XRD profiles revealed that the system (Sr1-xEu x)2SnO4, could form stable solid solutions in the composition range x 0-0.1. In the scanning electron microscopy (SEM) morphology observations, the shape of the grains was changed gradually from granular to globular as the calcination temperature increased from 1000 to 1300 deg. C. The calcined powders emit bright red luminescence centered at 619 nm due to the electric dipole transition 5D0 → 7F2, and the powders fired at 1200 deg. C were found to have the maximum PL intensity. The maximum PL intensity has been obtained for 5 mol% concentration of Eu3+ in Sr2SnO4

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DOI
10.1016/j.jallcom.2005.02.019;
PII
S0925-8388(05)00158-1;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of Alloys and Compounds
Journal Volume
398
Journal Issue
1-2
Journal Page Range
p. 256-260
ISSN
0925-8388
CODEN
JALCEU

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