title: The role of the Ca vacancy in the determination of the europium position in the energy gap, its valence state and spectroscopic properties in KCa(PO3)3.
abstract: A new very promising red phosphor KCa1-xEux(PO3)3 (x = 1-5%) has been grown by the solid state method. Its luminescent quantum efficiency is close to 100% and the emission is stable over a wide temperature range i.e. 90% and 60% of the room temperature emission intensity remains at 200 °C and at 600 °C, respectively. The chromaticity coordinates were calculated as being x = 0.63, y = 0.37. The IR and Raman spectra were measured, and the maximum phonon energy of KCa1-xEux(PO3)3 is 1276 cm(-1). In the measured emission and excitation spectra of all samples only Eu(3+) ion emission was observed, emission of Eu(2+) is not present. Quantum mechanical calculations showed that in a perfect crystal the 5d levels of Eu(2+) are embedded in the conduction band. Consequently, neither absorption nor emission assigned to the Eu(2+) ions could be observed. The presence of a calcium vacancy is crucial for the explanation of the observed spectrum. The existence of a Ca(2+) vacancy compensates for the charge of Eu(3+) and results in the creation of the magnetic moment which moves the 4f levels to the valence band. Thus, transitions to the Eu(3+) excited levels located in the energy band gap are observed.
authors: Institute of Low Temperature and Structure Research, PAS, Okolna 2, 50-422 Wroclaw, Poland. P.Deren@int.pan.wroc.pl.
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