Luminescent properties and energy level structure of CaZnOS:Eu2+

Journal Article (2017)
Author(s)

B Budde (Student TU Delft)

H. Luo (TU Delft - RST/Fundamental Aspects of Materials and Energy)

P. Dorenbos (TU Delft - RST/Fundamental Aspects of Materials and Energy)

Erik Van Der Kolk (TU Delft - RST/Fundamental Aspects of Materials and Energy)

Research Group
RST/Fundamental Aspects of Materials and Energy
Copyright
© 2017 B Budde, H. Luo, P. Dorenbos, E. van der Kolk
DOI related publication
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optmat.2017.04.045
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Publication Year
2017
Language
English
Copyright
© 2017 B Budde, H. Luo, P. Dorenbos, E. van der Kolk
Research Group
RST/Fundamental Aspects of Materials and Energy
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Volume number
69
Pages (from-to)
378-381
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Abstract

In this work it is shown that CaZnOS:Eu2+ has no Eu2+ emission even at low temperature. The observed and earlier reported red emission originates from a CaS:Eu2+ impurity phase. By means of washing the as-prepared samples with diluted nitride acid, we were able to remove the CaS impurity phase and study the Eu2+ emission in the pure CaZnOS phase. A clear relation was found between the red emission intensity, the CaS XRD line intensities and the nitric acid solution washing time, with zero intensity after prolonged washing. A so-called VRBE (vacuum referred binding energy)-diagram was constructed showing the energy of the 4fn and 4fn-15d1 states of the divalent and trivalent rare earth ions as dopants in CaZnOS with respect to the vacuum energy. This diagram shows that the 5d-levels of Eu2+ are located in the conduction band, which explains the absence of 5d→4f emission. By comparing the VRBE diagram with diagrams of other related compounds like CaO, CaS, ZnO and ZnS it becomes clear that the Eu2+ luminescence quenching is caused by a low lying conduction band, typical for Zn-based compounds.

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