Highly Efficient Narrow‐Band Green Emission in LaZn<sub>1</sub><sub>‐</sub><i><sub>x</sub></i>Mn<i><sub>x</sub></i>Al<sub>11</sub>O<sub>19</sub> Magnetoplumbite Phosphors toward White LED Application and Optical Thermometer
Peipei Dang, Hongzhou Lian, Jun Lin
Abstract
Abstract Mn 2+ ‐doped phosphors with narrow‐band green emission are promising for white light‐emitting diodes (WLEDs) to achieve high color rendering index and efficacy. Here, a series of narrow‐band green‐emitting LaZn 1− x Mn x Al 11 O 19 (0.01 ≤ x ≤ 0.30) magnetoplumbite phosphors (λ em = 515 nm) with full width at half maximum (FWHM) of ≈26 nm are designed based on highly symmetrical crystallographic structure. These green phosphors exhibit good photoluminescence quantum yield (PLQY) and small thermal quenching (TQ) performance (86%@423 K) under 450 nm blue light excitation. By further heavy doping Mn 2+ into LaZnAl 11 O 19 , a broadband red emission peaking at ≈672–697 nm appears upon blue light excitation due to the Mn 2+ –Mn 2+ super‐exchange interactions. A dual‐wavelength emission in LaZn 1− x Mn x Al 11 O 19 (0.5 ≤ x ≤ 1.0) phosphors provides thermal‐sensitive emission for ratiometric temperature sensing with good relative sensitivity. Benefitting from the Eu 2+ → Mn 2+ energy transfer, the green emission from Mn 2+ is increased by 26 times, and the internal QY of La 0.97 Zn 1− x Mn x Al 11 O 19 :0.03Eu 2+ reaches as high as 88% upon 350 nm light excitation. The efficient blue‐to‐green phosphors are obtained and used as candidates for violet‐excited WLEDs. This study has a guiding role in the development of Mn 2+ ‐doped phosphors in mineral structure with photoluminescence control based on high symmetry and Mn 2+ –Mn 2+ dimers.