A review on morphological studies of phosphors by combustion route synthesis: The role of fuels

Abstract

There are several methods are developed for the synthesis of phosphor materials with different advantages like short reaction time and crystal lattice parameters. Solution combustion synthesis is one of the novel method for the synthesis of phosphor materials. In past few years, Solution combustion method has been used to develop novel nanostructured phosphor materials although there is special attention has been given to the morphological studies of the luminescent phosphors. Different kinds of fuels were employed for the synthesis of luminescent phosphor using fues like triethylamine, analine, urea, citric acid and hydrazine. This review focuses on the recent work on the phosphors prepared by solution combustion using different types of fuels.