Controlled energy transfer has been found to be one of the most effective ways of designing tunable and white photoluminescent phosphors. Utilizing host emission to achieve the same would lead to a new dimension in the design strategy for novel luminescent materials in solid state lighting and display devices. In this work, we have achieved controlled energy transfer by suppressing the host to dopant energy transfer in La 2 Hf 2 O 7 :Eu 3+ nanoparticles (NPs) by co-doping with uranium ions. Uranium acts as a barrier between the oxygen vacancies of the La 2 Hf 2 O 7 host and Eu 3+ doping ions to increase their separation and reduce the non-radiative energy transfer between them. Density functional theory (DFT) calculations of defect formation energy showed that the Eu 3+ dopant occupies the La 3+ site and the uranium ion occupies the Hf 4+ site. Co-doping the La 2 Hf 2 O 7 :Eu 3+ NPs with uranium ions creates negatively charged lanthanum and hafnium vacancies making the system highly electron rich. Formation of cation vacancies is expected to compensate the excess charge in the U and Eu co-doped La 2 Hf 2 O 7 NPs suppressing the formationmore »
Interaction of CO 2 with Atomic Manganese in the Presence of an Excess Negative Charge Probed by Infrared Spectroscopy of [Mn(CO 2 ) n ] − Clusters
- Award ID(s):
- 1734006
- Publication Date:
- NSF-PAR ID:
- 10057139
- Journal Name:
- The Journal of Physical Chemistry A
- Volume:
- 121
- Issue:
- 40
- Page Range or eLocation-ID:
- 7534 to 7542
- ISSN:
- 1089-5639
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation