“…People obtained highly efficient blue, red, and green phosphors by doping respective activators, such as Eu 2þ , Mn 2þ and Eu 3þ , Tb 3þ [3e5]. Massive efforts have been devoted to investigate their photoluminescent (PL) properties, such as REMB 9 O 16 :Tb 3þ , Ce 3þ (RE ¼ La, Gd, and Y, M ¼ Sr or Ba) [2], REBaB 9 O 16 :Eu 3þ (RE ¼ La, Gd, and Y) [3,4,6,7], GdBa-B 9 O 16 :RE (RE ¼ Gd, Sm, Dy, Pr, Nd) [8e11], LaBaB 9 O 16 :M (M ¼ Bi 3þ , Mn 2þ ) [5], and EuBaB 9 O 16 [12,13]. These materials have potential applications in white light-emitting diodes (WLED) [13], tri-colour lamps [4,14], plasma display panels (PLD) under VUV excitation [6,15], and as well as laser materials [16].…”