title: Self-assembly, highly modified spontaneous emission and energy transfer properties of LaPO4:Ce3+, Tb3+ inverse opals.
abstract: The modification of photonic crystals (PCs) on photoluminescence of rare earth (RE) ions has attracted considerable interest, however, the modification of PCs on energy transfer (ET) processes of two separate RE centers has not been investigated yet. In this paper, three-dimensional Ce(3+), Tb(3+)-codoped LaPO4 inverse opal PCs (IOPCs) were fabricated by the PMMA colloidal template method. The modification of the photonic stop band (PSB) on emission spectra and the dynamics of the 5d-4f transition of Ce(3+) and the 4f-4f transition of Tb(3+) ions were systematically studied. It is interesting to observe that the spontaneous decay rates (SDR) of (5)D4-(7)F5 in the IOPCs were suppressed as highly as 173% in contrast to the reference ground powder samples (REF) due to the modification of the effective refractive index (n(eff)). The energy transfer (ET) rate of Ce(3+) to Tb(3+) did not change in the IOPCs, however, the energy migration rate among Tb(3+) ions was largely restrained. It is also significant to observe that, in the IOPCs, the temperature quenching and radiation trapping of photoluminescence were greatly suppressed due to the periodic empty cavity structure of IOPCs, which is significant for high-power light sources and laser devices.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory on Integrated Optoelectronics, College of Electronic Science and Engineering, Jilin University, 2699 Qianjin Street, Changchun 130012, China.
authors.forename: Yongsheng
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: Zhipeng
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.forename: Ze
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Yin
authors.forename: Hongwei
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Song
authors.forename: Wen
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Yunfeng
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Ligong
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Hanzhuang
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zhang