Journal of Inorganic Materials

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Preparation of CaS:TmF3 Phosphor

SUN Jia-Ming; ZHONG Guo-Zhu; FAN Xi-Wu; ZHENG Chen-Wei; Gerd.O.Mueller+; ReginaMuller-Mach+   

  1. Changchun Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences ,Laboratory of Excited States, Chinese Academy of Sciences Changchun 130021 China;
    +Hewlett Packard Laboratory, Electroluminescent Technology Department, 49001 Lakeview Bowlevard Fremont, CA 94538 USA

  • Received:1997-05-12 Revised:1997-07-09 Published:1998-06-20 Online:1998-06-20

Abstract: This paper studied the preparation of CaS powders by sulfurizing CaCO3 in different atmosphere such as S+N2, S+air, H2S+H2, H2S, S+H2S and S+H2S+H2 with different
reactive methods. The formation of impurity phases such as CaSO4 and CaO depends strongly on the sulfurizing atmospheres. The amount of F^+ vacancies and the influence of F+
vacancies on the blue luminescence of CaS:TmF3 phosphor were studied by photoluminescent (PL) and photoluminescent excitation spectra (PLE). It is concluded that CaS powders
containing large amount of F+ vacancies are not suitable for preparation of efficient CaS:TmF3 phosphor because of the energy transfer from host and Tm3+ luminescent centers to the F+
vacancies. The qualified CaS powder for CaS:TmF3 phosphor was prepared by sulfurizing CaCO3 in S+H2S atmosphere.

Key words: calcium sulfied, X-ray diffraction, F+ center, photoluminescence

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