X-ray absorption spectroscopy and neutron-diffraction study of persistent luminescent Sr2MgSi2O7 glass-ceramics

[EN] Glass-ceramics based on the Eu 2 O 3 /Dy 2 O 3 -doped Sr 2 MgSi 2 O 7 phosphor have been obtained from sinter- ing and crystallization of glass powders. The doped parent glasses show red emission under excitation of UV light. After thermal treatment, the corresponding glass-ceramics show persis...

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Autores: Fernández-Rodríguez, Laura, Gorni, Giulio, Mather, Glenn C., Savvin, S., Cuello, G. J., Durán, Alicia, Pascual, M. Jesús
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/251857
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/251857
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Sr2MgSi2O7
Phosphors
Europium
Glass-ceramics
XAS
Neutron diffraction
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Sumario:[EN] Glass-ceramics based on the Eu 2 O 3 /Dy 2 O 3 -doped Sr 2 MgSi 2 O 7 phosphor have been obtained from sinter- ing and crystallization of glass powders. The doped parent glasses show red emission under excitation of UV light. After thermal treatment, the corresponding glass-ceramics show persistent blue emission which emanates from Eu 2 + incorporated in the crystals; red emission also occurs from Eu 3 + in the residual vitreous phase. The aim of this work is to investigate the structure of defects such as oxygen and strontium vacancies in the Sr 2 MgSi 2 O 7 crystals and the environment, oxidation state and coordination of the Eu and Dy ions in the glass-ceramics, their partitioning between crystalline and glassy phase and their influence on lu- minescence properties, employing X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) and neutron diffraction (ND) as investigative structural tools. We suggest that the luminescence mechanism involves the presence of shal- low electron traps that are abruptly emptied for temperatures above 100 K. The most persistent lumines- cence is likely due to an effective concentration of Eu 2 + in the dendritic-shaped crystals in one of the particular compositions, and with a suitable level of Sr vacancies, even though Sr vacancies are most likely formed in all the investigated samples.