“…To the best of our knowledge, no paper has been published on the preparation of rare-earth ion doped Li 3 Ba 2 Ln 3 (MoO 4 ) 8 (Ln = La, Gd and Y) phosphors, so far. Compound Li 3 Ba 2 Gd 3 (MoO 4 ) 8 adopts a monoclinic structure, and the rare-earth ions in this host lattice have no inversion symmetry [15], which is in favor of the red emission ( 5 D 0 -7 F 2 ) transition of Eu 3+ . Thus the Eu 3+ doped Li 3 Ba 2 Gd 3 (MoO 4 ) 8 phosphor is expected to be a red phosphor for GaN-based LED.…”