Effects of crystal structure transformation on cooperative up-conversion luminescence in the Tb3+-Yb3+ co-doped oxyfluoride glass-ceramics

Zhencai Li; Dacheng Zhou; Yong Yang; Peng Ren; Rui Zhu; Tao Han; Jianbei Qiu

doi:10.1016/j.jallcom.2017.10.055

Effects of crystal structure transformation on cooperative up-conversion luminescence in the Tb³⁺-Yb³⁺ co-doped oxyfluoride glass-ceramics

Zhencai Li, Dacheng Zhou, Yong Yang, Peng Ren, Rui Zhu, Tao Han, Jianbei Qiu^*

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Abstract

In this study, Tb³⁺-Yb³⁺ co-doped transparent oxyfluoride glass-ceramics were prepared respectively from melt-quenched glass samples with the molar compositions of 45SiO₂-15Al₂O₃-12Na₂CO₃-21BaF₂-(7-x)LaF₃-xYF₃ (x = 0, 1, 3, 6 and 7). It was found that the crystal structure of the annealed glass-ceramics strongly depended on the ratio of YF₃/LaF₃. X-ray diffraction (XRD) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) results revealed that the crystal structure transformed from cubic Ba₂LaF₇ phase to cubic intermediate phase and finally to cubic BaYF₅ phase, the BaYF₅ nanocrystal was determined as cubic structure instead of the reported tetragonal structure for the first time via a Rietveld refinement method with TOPAS. In the process of crystal structure transformation, the local symmetry around Tb³⁺ ions was infected by different types of irregularly arranged interstitial F- ions, which further affected the effective phonon energy around Tb³⁺ ions. The high effective phonon energy around Tb³⁺ ions in the intermediate phase could strongly enhance the up-conversion (UC) luminescence intensity, and thus improved the UC luminescence efficiency.

Original language	English
Journal	Journal of Alloys and Compounds
Volume	731
Pages (from-to)	1044-1052
Number of pages	9
ISSN	0925-8388
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jallcom.2017.10.055
Publication status	Published - 15 Jan 2018
Externally published	Yes

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Funding Information:
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 61565009 , 11664022 , 11774138 ), Society Development Foundation of Yunnan Province ( 2016FA021 ).

Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Elsevier B.V.

Keywords

Crystal structure transformation
Effective phonon energy
High local symmetry
Intermediate phase
Interstitial F ions
Up-conversion

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