Prevention of thermal- and moisture-induced degradation of the photoluminescence properties of the Sr2Si5N8:Eu2+ red phosphor by thermal post-treatment in N2–H2
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Chenning Zhang, Tetsuo Uchikoshi, Rong-Jun Xie, Lihong Liu, Yoshio Sakka, Naoto Hirosaki
A red phosphor of Sr2Si5N8:Eu2+ powder was synthesized by a solid state reaction. The synthesized phosphor was thermally post-treated in an inert and reductive N2–H2 mixed-gas atmosphere at 300–1200 °C. The main phase of the resultant phosphor was identified as Sr2Si5N8. A passivation layer of ∼0.2 μm thickness was formed around the phosphor surface via thermal treatment. Moreover, two different luminescence centers of Eu(SrI) and Eu(SrII) in the synthesized Sr2Si5N8:Eu2+ phosphor were proposed to be responsible for 620 nm and 670 nm emissions, respectively. More interestingly, thermal- and moisture-induced degradation of PL intensity was effectively reduced by the formation of a passivation layer around the phosphor surface, that is, the relative PL intensity recovered 99.8% of the initial intensity even after encountering thermal degradation; both moisture-induced degraded external and internal QEs were merely 1% of the initial QEs. The formed surface layer was concluded to primarily prevent the Eu2+ activator from being oxidized, based on the systemic analysis of the mechanisms of thermal- and moisture-induced degradation.
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