Affiliation: | aKey Laboratory of Rare Earth Chemistry and Physics, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130022, China bCollege of Material Science and Engineering, Hebei Polytechnic University, Tangshan 063009, China cState Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technology, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China dGraduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China |
Abstract: | A valence change from Eu3+ to Eu2+ was observed in the europium ion-doped ZnO–B2O3–P2O5 glasses prepared at high temperature in air. The fluorescence emission spectrum of the sample consists of a broad emission band ascribed to the 5d–4f transition of Eu2+ ion and sharp emission peaks assigned to the transitions of 5Do–7FJ (J = 0, 1, 2, 3, and 4) of Eu3+ ion, indicating that part of Eu3+ can be reduced into Eu2+ in the glass. A charge compensation model is proposed. The rigid tetrahedral network structure of glasses plays an important role in stability of Eu2+. The fabrication conditions are also studied. |