Synthesis and photoluminescence properties of novel red-emitting KMg4(PO4)3: Eu3+phosphors for UV-excited white-light emitting diodes

Abstract

The trivalent Eu3+ activated KMg4(PO4)3 phosphor has been successfully prepared via solid state diffusion technique. The phase formation and structural morphological studies carried out by XRD pattern and SEM analysis. The photoluminescence excitation spectra centred at 395 nm attributed to 7F0→5L6 energy transition levels. PL emission spectra centred at 593 nm and 613 nm corresponds to 5D0→7FJ( J=1,2) transitions of Eu3+ in the host respectively. The experimental results showed that Eu3+ singly doped KMg4(PO4)3 phosphor under UV excitation gives intense red emissions. The critical Eu3+ quenching concentration (QC) was determined to be 1.0 mol% along with excellent CIE coordinates of (0.6326, 0.3670). All the above results exhibits, the prepared phosphor is promising material as UV excitable red emitting phosphor for w-LED.