Volume 52, Issue 31 pp. 8102-8106
Communication

Nanosegregation and Neighbor-Cation Control of Photoluminescence in Carbidonitridosilicate Phosphors

Wan-Yu Huang

Wan-Yu Huang

Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University, Taipei 106 (Taiwan)

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Fumitaka Yoshimura

Fumitaka Yoshimura

Mitsubishi Chemical Group, Science and Technology Research Center, Inc. Yokohama, Kanagawa 227-8502 (Japan)

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Dr. Kyota Ueda

Dr. Kyota Ueda

Mitsubishi Chemical Group, Science and Technology Research Center, Inc. Yokohama, Kanagawa 227-8502 (Japan)

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Dr. Yasuo Shimomura

Dr. Yasuo Shimomura

Mitsubishi Chemical Group, Science and Technology Research Center, Inc. Yokohama, Kanagawa 227-8502 (Japan)

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Dr. Hwo-Shuenn Sheu

Dr. Hwo-Shuenn Sheu

National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center, Hsinchu 300 (Taiwan)

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Dr. Ting-Shan Chan

Dr. Ting-Shan Chan

National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center, Hsinchu 300 (Taiwan)

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Heather F. Greer

Heather F. Greer

School of Chemistry, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife KY16 9ST (UK)

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Prof. Dr. Wuzong Zhou

Prof. Dr. Wuzong Zhou

School of Chemistry, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife KY16 9ST (UK)

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Prof. Dr. Shu-Fen Hu

Prof. Dr. Shu-Fen Hu

Department of Physics, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei 116 (Taiwan)

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Prof. Dr. Ru-Shi Liu

Corresponding Author

Prof. Dr. Ru-Shi Liu

Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University, Taipei 106 (Taiwan)

Ru-Shi Liu, Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University, Taipei 106 (Taiwan)

J. Paul Attfield, Centre for Science at Extreme Conditions and School of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh, King's Buildings, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JZ (UK)

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Prof. Dr. J. Paul Attfield

Corresponding Author

Prof. Dr. J. Paul Attfield

Centre for Science at Extreme Conditions and School of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh, King's Buildings, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JZ (UK)

Ru-Shi Liu, Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University, Taipei 106 (Taiwan)

J. Paul Attfield, Centre for Science at Extreme Conditions and School of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh, King's Buildings, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JZ (UK)

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First published: 21 June 2013
Citations: 44

This work was supported by EPSRC, the Leverhulme Trust, and the Royal Society U.K., and the National Science Council of the Republic of China, Taiwan (Contract Nos. NSC 101-2113M-002-014-MY3 and NSC 101-2923M-007-003) and the Mitsubishi Chemical Group, Science and Technology Research Center, Inc. We are grateful to Chia-Han Chen for assistance in fitting data and preparing figures, and Tsung-Han Lin for providing an ultrafast personal computer in this work.

Graphical Abstract

Blue, green, and yellow phosphors are obtained in the Sr1−xY0.98+xCe0.02Si4N7−xCx system (x=0→1). Decreases in thermal quenching barrier height with x result from a dominant neighboring-cation effect, through which the replacement of Sr2+ by Y3+ reduces the covalency of CeN bonding. Green emission is observed from a cation-segregated nanostructure of SrYSi4N7 and Y2Si4N6C domains in x=0.2–0.6 samples.

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