TY - JOUR
T1 - Easy emission-color-control of Mn-doped zinc silicate phosphor by use of pH and supercritical water conditions
AU - Toyama, Suguru
AU - Takesue, Masafumi
AU - Aida, Taku M.
AU - Watanabe, Masaru
AU - Smith, Richard L.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2015/3
Y1 - 2015/3
N2 - Emission of Zn2SiO4:Mn2+ can be readily controlled to have continuously variable colors between green and yellow by adjusting the pH of the starting solutions in supercritical water syntheses. Mostly single phase β-Zn2SiO4:Mn2+ exhibiting yellow emission was formed at a pH of 10.5. By changing pH of the starting solution from low values (ca. 2.8) to high values (ca. 12.5), emission color could be proportionally varied from green emission to yellow emission because the amount of each phase was found to change. The selectivity of α- and β-Zn2SiO4 crystallization in supercritical water is strongly related to the solubility of dissolved species of the zinc ion source, Zn(OH)2 in water. Photoluminescence results showed that the reaction atmosphere determines emission color over a wide range of dominant wavelengths, 534-571 nm, according to the crystalline phases formed. The use of pH with supercritical water allows a simple control strategy for emission color control of Zn2SiO4:Mn2+ phosphors.
AB - Emission of Zn2SiO4:Mn2+ can be readily controlled to have continuously variable colors between green and yellow by adjusting the pH of the starting solutions in supercritical water syntheses. Mostly single phase β-Zn2SiO4:Mn2+ exhibiting yellow emission was formed at a pH of 10.5. By changing pH of the starting solution from low values (ca. 2.8) to high values (ca. 12.5), emission color could be proportionally varied from green emission to yellow emission because the amount of each phase was found to change. The selectivity of α- and β-Zn2SiO4 crystallization in supercritical water is strongly related to the solubility of dissolved species of the zinc ion source, Zn(OH)2 in water. Photoluminescence results showed that the reaction atmosphere determines emission color over a wide range of dominant wavelengths, 534-571 nm, according to the crystalline phases formed. The use of pH with supercritical water allows a simple control strategy for emission color control of Zn2SiO4:Mn2+ phosphors.
KW - Emission color control
KW - Hydrothermal reaction
KW - pH control
KW - Supercritical water
KW - Zinc silicate
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U2 - 10.1016/j.supflu.2015.01.007
DO - 10.1016/j.supflu.2015.01.007
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84921644537
SN - 0896-8446
VL - 98
SP - 65
EP - 69
JO - Journal of Supercritical Fluids
JF - Journal of Supercritical Fluids
ER -