Lu Chen
(Northeastern University)
;
Sisi Yu
(Northeastern University)
;
Guichang Shen
(Northeastern University)
;
Shuai Tang
(Northeastern University)
;
Tao Zhang
(Northeastern University)
;
李 継光
(Research Center for Electronic and Optical Materials/Optical Materials Field/Polycrystalline Optical Material Group, National Institute for Materials Science
)
;
Qi Zhu
(Northeastern University)
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(abstract)Broadband near-infrared (NIR) phosphors, as key materials in NIR phosphor-converted light-emitting diodes (pc-LED) for emerging applications, have recently attracted considerable attention. Herein, by selecting a comprehensive engineering strategy of co-substituting [Al3+-Al3+] with [Mg2+-Ge4+] units and increasing Cr3+ concentration, a novel Cr3+-doped ZnAl1.16Mg0.4Ge0.4O4 (ZA(MG)0.4:2 at.%Cr3+) phosphor with continual broadband NIR emission was synthesized. The site occupation of Mg2+/Ge4+ in ZnAl2O4 is unraveled by Rietveld structure refinement and density functional theory (DFT) calculations. According to the photoluminescence behaviors, the formed defect clusters of ZnAl’-Cr3+-GeAl·and MgAl’-Cr3+-GeAl· can not only introduce shallow defects to serve as new traps to obtain long-persistent luminescence but can also enhance the emission intensity at ~689 nm and ~694 nm. The quantity and scale of Cr3+-Cr3+ pairs and Cr3+ in distorted sites, which can improve the thermal quenching resistance and emission intensity in the range of 700-800 nm, can be accurately regulated by varying the concentration of Cr3+. Under 387 nm excitation, the designed material exhibits intensive NIR emission from 685 to 750 nm with a wide full-width at half maximum (FWHM) of 95 nm. The electroluminescence spectrum and potential applications of the NIR pc-LED prepared using ZA(MG)0.4:2 at.%Cr3+ phosphor are also reported. The results promise a feasible strategy to develop NIR phosphors as NIR pc-LEDs lighting sources for applications in ondestructive detection and anticounterfeiting.
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Keyword: Chemical unit co-substitution, Defect clusters, Distorted site, Near-infrared persistent luminescence, Broadband emission
Date published: 2023-10-26
Publisher: Elsevier
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- Ceramics International (ISSN: 18733956) vol. 50 issue. 1B p. 1956-1969
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Manuscript type: Author's version (Accepted manuscript)
MDR DOI: https://doi.org/10.48505/nims.4400
First published URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ceramint.2023.10.299
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Updated at: 2025-10-26 08:30:07 +0900
Published on MDR: 2025-10-26 08:17:01 +0900
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