Antiferroelectric properties and site occupations of R3+ cations in Ca8MgR(PO4)(7) luminescent host materials

作者：Belik Alexei A^*; Morozov Vladimir A; Deyneko Dina V; Savon Alexander E; Baryshnikova Oksana V; Zhukovskaya Evgeniya S; Dorbakov Nikolay G; Katsuya Yoshio; Tanaka Masahiko; Stefanovich Sergey Yu; Hadermann Joke; Lazoryak Bogdan I

来源：Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2017, 699: 928-937.

DOI：10.1016/j.jallcom.2016.12.288

• Optical materials
• Inorganic materials
• Solid state reactions
• Crystal structure
• Luminescence
• Synchrotron radiation

Ca8MgR(PO4)(7) = La, Pr, Nd, Sm-Lu, and Y) phosphates with a beta-Ca-3(PO4)(2) related structure were prepared by a standard solid-state method in air. Second-harmonic generation, differential scanning calorimetry, and dielectric measurements led to the conclusion that all Ca8MgR(PO4)(7) are centrosymmetric and go to another centrosymmetric phase in the course of a first-order antiferroelectric phase transition well above room temperature (RT). High-temperature electron diffraction showed that the symmetry changes from R (3) over barc to R (3) over barm during the phase transition. Structures of Ca8MgR(PO4)(7) at RT were refined by the Rietveld method in centrosymmetric space group R (3) over barc. Mg2+ cations occupy the M5 site; the occupancy of the M1 site by R3+ cations increases monotonically from 0.0389 for R = La to 0.1667 for R = Er-Lu, whereas the occupancy of the M3 site by R3+ cations decreases monotonically from 0.1278 for R = La to 0 for R = Er-Lu. In the case of R = Er-Lu, the M3 site is occupied only by Ca2+ cations. P1O(4) tetrahedra and cations at the M3 site are disordered in the R (3) over barc structure of Ca8MgEu(PO4)(7). Using synchrotron X-ray powder diffraction, we found that annealing conditions do not significantly affect the distribution of Ca2+ and Eu3+ cations between the structure positions of Ca8MgEu(PO4)(7). Luminescent properties of CasMgEu(PO4)(7) powder samples were investigated under near-ultraviolet (n-UV) light. Excitation spectra of CasMgEu(PO4)(7) show the strongest absorption at about 395 nm that matches with commercially available n-UV-emitting GaN-based LED chips. Emission spectra show an intense red emission due to the D-5(0) -> F-7(2) transition of Eu3+.

• 出版日期2017-3-30