Luminescence of halophosphate solid-solution Ca5(PO4)3(F0.8Cl0.2):Eu2+,Mn2+ for WLED

Solid-solution based luminescent materials have been widely explored due to their tunable optical properties in recent years. In this work, instead of more common cation-substitution approach, we investigated the luminescence properties of Eu~(2+) and Mn~(2+) co-doped halophosphate solid solution Ca_5(PO_4)_3(F_(0.8)Cl_(0.2)) via anion substitution synthesized by high temperature solid state reaction method.The formation of the solid solution was confirmed by X-ray diffraction(XRD) characterization, which indicates that the introduction of certain proportion of Cl~-will not make significant change on the Ca_5(PO_4)_3F lattice. We also studied the energy transfer from Eu~(2+) to Mn~(2+) in the host so as to obtain white light emission via adjusting the doping concentrations of Eu~(2+) and Mn~(2+). The white light emission was achieved through combination of Eu~(2+) blue emission and Mn~(2+) red-orange emission with appropriate proportions. The results suggest that Ca_5(PO_4)_3(F_(0.8)Cl_(0.2)):0.01Eu~(2+),0.18 Mn~(2+) could be a potential WLED phosphor working under ultraviolet excitation.