Title
Efficient multicolor tunability of ultrasmall ternary-doped LaF<inf>3</inf> nanoparticles: Energy conversion and magnetic behavior
Date Issued
01 January 2017
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Shrivastava N.
Khan L.U.
Vargas J.M.
Ospina C.
Zoppellaro G.
Brito H.F.
Javed Y.
Shukla D.K.
Felinto M.C.F.C.
Sharma S.K.
University of Brasilia
Publisher(s)
Royal Society of Chemistry
Abstract
Luminescence-tunable multicolored LaF3:xCe3+,xGd3+,yEu3+ (x = 5; y = 1, 5, 10, and 15 mol%) nanoparticles have been synthesized via a low cost polyol method. Powder X-ray diffraction and high-resolution transmission electron microscopy studies confirm the hexagonal phase of the LaF3:xCe3+,xGd3+,yEu3+ nanophosphors with average sizes (oval shape) ranging from 5 to 7 nm. Energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy analyses show the uniform distribution of Ce3+, Gd3+, and Eu3+ dopants in the LaF3 host matrix. The photoluminescence spectra and electron paramagnetic resonance measurements guarantee the presence of Eu2+, corroborated through DC susceptibility measurements of the samples displaying paramagnetic behavior at 300 K, whereas weak ferromagnetic ordering is shown at 2 K. The non-radiative energy transfer processes from the 4f(2F5/2) → 5d state (Ce3+) to the intraconfigurational 4f excited levels of rare earth ions and simultaneous emissions in the visible region from the 4f65d1 (Eu2+) and 5D0 (Eu3+) emitting levels, leading to overlapped broad and narrow emission bands, have been proclaimed. The energy transfer mechanism proposes involvement of the Gd3+ ion sub-lattice as the bridge and finally trapping by Eu2+/3+, upon excitation of the Ce3+ ion. The calculation of experimental intensity parameters (Ω2,4) has been discussed and the highest emission quantum efficiency (η = 85%) of the Eu3+ ion for the y = 10 mol% sample is reported. The advantageous existence of the Eu2+/Eu3+ ratio along with variously doped nanomaterials described in this work, results in tunable emission color in the blue-white-red regions, highlighting the potential application of the samples in solid-state lighting devices, scintillation devices, and multiplex detection.
Start page
18660
End page
18670
Volume
19
Issue
28
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Física de partículas, Campos de la Física
Química física
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85026211234
PubMed ID
Source
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
ISSN of the container
14639076
Sponsor(s)
All authors are grateful for financial/technical support from the CAPES, FAPEMA, CNPq, FAPESP and CNPEM-LNNano in Brazil; CONICET in Argentina, and project LO1305 in Czech Republic. The authors thank Prof. Alan S. Menezes, Universidade Federal doMaranhao, Brazil for the support given in Rietveld refinement.
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