“…From the earlier times, material innovators have made efforts to replace traditional lighting tools with solid‐state lighting devices possessing advanced light‐emitting properties [3, 4]. Therefore, rare‐earth (RE) doped light harvesting nanomaterials are the important constituents as they can be used in display units [5, 6], fluorescent lamps [7], amplifiers and lasers [8], white light‐emitting devices (WLED) [9, 10] or nanophosphors [11, 12] due to a broad spectral response from the UV to the infrared regions. Characteristic luminescence of phosphors primarily depends on the types of host lattice, synthetic method, nature and the concentration of the dopant ion [13].…”