The goal of this work was to determine the luminescent lifetime of these phosphor
materials as a function of temperature. Cerium-doped yttrium aluminum garnet and
europium-doped pyrochlores were synthesized using combustion synthesis. The
phosphors were characterized using X-ray diffraction, transmission electron microscopy,
and photoluminescence spectroscopy. Lifetime measurements were taken over a range of
temperatures. The garnet materials exhibited thermal quenching between 30-125 ◦ C . In
contrast, the pyrochlore materials did not exhibit thermal quenching until well past 300 ◦ C
. The results presented in this work have shown that high energy states, such as the charge
transfer state or the d -orbitals, play a key role in the thermal quenching properties of
materials. For Ce-doped materials, our results indicate that materials which cause the
splitting of the d -orbitals to increase will cause the emission from the d1
→ 4 f transition
to thermally quench at higher temperatures. The lifetime of the 5 D0
→ 4 f emission line of
Eu3+ is dependent on the location of the charge transfer state. We suggest that the reason
higher quenching temperature are observed in materials such as YBO3 : Eu and the other
pyrochlores is because these materials have high-energy charge transfer states. Tuning
Eu3+ materials to maximize the energy of the charge transfer state may improve thermal
quenching properties of thermographic phosphors.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:VANDERBILT/oai:VANDERBILTETD:etd-08052010-142925 |
| Date | 17 August 2010 |
| Creators | Hansel, Rachael Ann |
| Contributors | Charles Lukhart, Ph.D., Richard Haglund, Ph.D., Timothy Hanusa, Ph.D., Stephen W. Allison, Ph.D., D. Greg Walker, Ph.D. |
| Publisher | VANDERBILT |
| Source Sets | Vanderbilt University Theses |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/available/etd-08052010-142925/ |
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