Photoluminescence properties of II‐III2S4:Eu (II=Ca, Sr, Ba; III=Ga, In, Y, La; Eu concentration was 1 mol%) have been investigated systematically. In Ga compounds, well‐known green∼yellow emissions are observed, while the emissions become very weak in In substituted compounds.
In III=Y or La compounds, when II=Ca or Sr, red∼infrared emissons which seem to be due to phonon‐terminated transition of the Eu2+ ions are observed, while when II=Ba, strong sharp lines due to the Eu3+ions are detected. These spectral changes are discussed in terms of the effective ionic radii and the sulfur vacancies (© 2009 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)