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Local environments of dilute activator ions in the solid-state lighting phosphor Y3-xCexAl5O12

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The oxide garnet Y3Al5O12 (YAG), when substituted with a few percent of the activator ion Ce3+ to replace Y3+, is a luminescent material that is nearly ideal for phosphor-converted solid-state white lighting. The local environments of the small number of substituted Ce3+ ions are known to critically influence the optical properties of the phosphor. Using a combination of powerful experimental methods, the nature of these local environments is determined and is correlated with the macroscopic luminescent properties of Ce-substituted YAG. The rigidity of the garnet structure is established and is shown to play a key role in the high quantum yield and in the resistance toward thermal quenching of luminescence. Local structural probes reveal compression of the Ce3+ local environments by the rigid YAG structure, which gives rise to the unusually large crystal-field splitting, and hence yellow emission. Effective design rules for finding new phosphor materials inferred from the results establish that efficient phosphors require rigid, highly three-dimensionally connected host structures with simple compositions that manifest a low number of phonon modes, and low activator ion concentrations to avoid quenching.
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hal-00915669 , version 1 (09-12-2013)

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Nathan C. George, Andrew J. Pell, Géraldine Dantelle, Katharine Page, Anna Llobet, et al.. Local environments of dilute activator ions in the solid-state lighting phosphor Y3-xCexAl5O12. Chemistry of Materials, 2013, 25 (20), pp.3979-3995. ⟨10.1021/cm401598n⟩. ⟨hal-00915669⟩
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