A Mn4+-doped oxyfluoride phosphor with remarkable negative thermal quenching and high color stability for warm WLEDs

By Shengan He, Fanfan Xu, Tiantian Han, Zeqin Lu, Wei Wang, Jiaqing Peng, F. Du, Fengli Yang, Xinyu Ye. 2020

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Abstract Red-emitting phosphors composed of Mn4+-activated fluorides have attracted considerable interest for their applications in warm white light-emitting diodes (WLEDs). However, in addition to moisture instability, the unsatisfactory thermal stability of these phosphors limits their industrial applications. In this study, a novel red phosphor of CsMoO2F3:Mn4+ was synthesized via simple coprecipitation. This red phosphor exhibits an orthorhombic structure with a bandgap of ~3.43 eV. The Mn4+ ions occupy Mo6+ sites at the centers of [MoO2F4]2− octahedrons. This phosphor shows narrow emission around ~633 nm excited by 450 nm blue-chip with high color purity of 99.58%. Satisfactorily, this phosphor exhibits excellent thermal stability and a strong negative-thermal-quenching. The total PL intensity of CsMoO2F3:3.88%Mn4+ phosphor at 275 K strengthens to ~540% relative to that at 25 K, and its relative emission intensity preserves about 129.3% when the temperature rises from room temperature to 423 K (150 ℃). It also shows admirable color stability with a slight chromaticity shift (ΔE) of only ~ 33.9 × 10 - 3 in the temperature region from 298 to 473 K. Furthermore, a warm WLED was fabricated by the mixture of red-emitting CsMoO2F3:3.88%Mn4+ and the yellow-emitting YAG:Ce3+ phosphors with a blue-emitting InGaN LED chip. The device exhibits low correlated color temperature (3983 K) and high color-rendering index (Ra = 81.3). With the increasing drive current from 20 mA to 120 mA, the chromaticity coordinate variation (CCV) is only (−0.0163, 0.0202). All these results indicate that the CsMoO2F3:Mn4+ phosphor holds tremendous potential for practical applications in high-power lighting and display with high-performance WLEDs.

Subfields: Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Inorganic Chemistry, Materials Chemistry

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