New Structural Design Strategy: Optical Center VO₄-Activated Broadband Yellow Phosphate Phosphors for High-Color-Rendering WLEDs

Abstract

Optical center VO4-activated non-rare-earth phosphors featuring impressive broadband emission are emerging as alternatives to rare-earth phosphors for lightings. However, most VO4-activated phosphors merely exist in vanadates and suffer from serious luminescence thermal quenching, which hinder the development of advanced VO4-activated phosphors. Herein, we put forward a new strategy of constructing optical center VO4 in non-vanadate compounds with thermal stability to enrich the number and variety of VO4-activated phosphors and improve their thermal stability. In this study, detailed structural analysis and theoretical calculation show that we have successfully constructed VO4 groups with a highly electron-localized property by substituting P5+ in the K2BaCa­(PO4)2 (KBCP) host with V5+, confirming the formation of VO4 centers. In K2BaCa­(PO4)2–x (VO4) x (KBCP2–x V x ) compounds, the appearance of VO4 groups significantly enhances the absorption efficiency of near-ultraviolet light, yielding a broadband yellow emission centered at 568 nm, with a full width at half-maximum of 213 nm. At 150 °C, the KBCP1.8V0.2 sample shows superior thermal stability with an emission loss of only 10%, surpassing the performances of VO4-activated vanadate phosphors ever reported. Using the KBCP1.8V0.2 phosphor, the resulting white-light-emitting diodes (WLEDs) show a high color rendering index of 87.3–93.4 and a wide range of correlated color temperatures of 4357–6510 K. Our results may stimulate more research on anionic-group-activated phosphors and accelerate the development of advanced VO4-activated phosphors.

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