Photoluminescence study of Eu3+ doped zinc-tungsten-antimonite glasses for red LED applications

• Autor(a) principal: Roy, Joy Sankar [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Messaddeq, Younès [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jlumin.2020.117608; http://hdl.handle.net/11449/202048
• topic: Antimonite glasses; LED; Optical properties; Photoluminescence; Rare earth

The rare earth ions doped glassy materials have become crucial capstone in solid state lighting due to their top-notch optical properties. In this work, Eu3+ doped zinc-tungsten-antimonite glasses with compositions of (60 - x)Sb2O3 − 15WO3 – 25ZnO – xEu2O3 (where x is 0.5, 1.0, 1.5, 2.0, 2.5 and 3.0) were prepared by melt quenching technique. The glasses were prepared with the variation of concentration of Eu3+ ions to achieve superior brightness. The emission intensity increases with the increasing concentration of Eu3+ ions. The prepared glasses exhibit strong hypersensitive red emission at 616 nm due to 5D0 → 7F2 transition under 465 nm excitation wavelength. Along with maximum bright red emission of 3 mol % Eu3+ doped glass also demonstrates high degree of excited state lifetime (556 μs). All these properties strongly validate the bright prospect of these luminescent glasses for utilizing in red LED applications.