Far-red-emitting YAl3(BO3)4:Cr3+ phosphors with excellent thermal stability and high luminescent yield for plant growth LEDs |
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Authors: | Meiling Shi Leqi Yao Junfeng Xu Chao Liang Yan Dong Qiyue Shao |
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Affiliation: | 1. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Advanced Metallic Materials, Southeast University, Nanjing, PR China;2. Jiangsu Bree Optronics Co., Ltd., Nanjing, PR China |
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Abstract: | Phosphors-converted LEDs (pc-LEDs) are excellent artificial light sources for indoor plant cultivation, in which the far-red-emitting component (700−780 nm) plays an important role in regulating the photomorphogenesis of plants. Accordingly, highly efficient and thermally stable far-red-emitting phosphors are indispensable for developing high-performance plant cultivation pc-LEDs. Herein, far-red-emitting YAl3(BO3)4:Cr3+ (YAB:Cr3+) phosphors were synthesized by solid-state reaction, and their photoluminescence characteristics, thermal quenching, quantum yield (QY), and application in pc-LEDs were systematically investigated. The YAB:Cr3+ phosphor has an intense broadband absorption to the blue light, simultaneously exhibiting the sharp-line 2E emission and the broadband 4 T2 emission of Cr3+ with a QY of ~86.7%. The far-red broadband emissions of YAB:Cr3+ centered at ~735 nm show a high resemblance to the active-state (PFR) absorption of plant phytochrome. Moreover, the YAB:Cr3+ phosphor shows the thermally enhanced luminescence at temperatures of 303−393 K and the near-zero thermal quenching up to 423 K. The anomalous thermal enhancement is attributed to the temperature-dependent repopulation between 2E and 4 T2 states. Finally, a pc-LED device was fabricated with the YAB:Cr3+ phosphor and blue chip, exhibiting the light out power of ~50.6 mW and energy conversion efficiency of ~17.4% at 100 mA drive current, respectively. The exceptional PL features including suitable excitation/emission wavelengths, suppressed thermal quenching and high QY make YAB:Cr3+ phosphors very promising for applications in plant growth pc-LEDs. |
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Keywords: | Cr3+ far-red phosphor-converted LEDs photoluminescence plant lighting |
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