荧光粉
德拜模型
光致发光
发光
黛比
材料科学
晶体结构
从头算量子化学方法
化学
矿物学
分析化学(期刊)
热力学
结晶学
分子
光电子学
物理
有机化学
作者
Shruti Hariyani,Anna C. Duke,Thorben Krauskopf,Wolfgang G. Zeier,Jakoah Brgoch
摘要
In the quest to predict photoluminescent efficiency in rare-earth substituted inorganic phosphors, research has shown that materials consisting of ordered, rigid crystal structures tend to possess the highest photoluminescent quantum yields. A compound's Debye temperature (ΘD), which can be calculated using ab initio calculations, is an ideal proxy for quantitatively comparing structural rigidity among different inorganic compounds, allowing potentially efficient phosphors to be selected from large crystal structure databases. However, the high computational cost of these calculations limits estimating ΘD for unsubstituted host crystal structures only. It is assumed that the low substitution concentration of the rare-earth luminescent center does not significantly influence a material's Debye temperature. This work evaluates the validity of this approximation by examining the effect of luminescent center substitution on a host structure's ΘD. Two well-known phosphors, (Y1–xCex)3Al5O12 (x = 0 − 0.05) and Ba1-δEuδMgAl10O17 (δ = 0 − 0.15), were synthesized with varying rare-earth concentrations, while ΘD was computationally estimated and then determined by ultrasonic pulse-echo speed-of-sound and low-temperature heat capacity measurements. The ensuing results provide key implications for using ΘD as a proxy for structural rigidity in substituted inorganic compounds.
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