Cold white light generation through the simultaneous emission from Ce3+ and Tb3+ in sodium germanate glass

E. Álvarez, Ma E. Zayas, D. Rodríguez-Carvajal, F. Félix-Domínguez, R. P. Duarte-Zamorano, C. Falcony, U. Caldiño*

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Abstract

A spectroscopic investigation of sodium germanate glasses activated with Ce3+, Tb3+ and Ce3+/Tb3+ is carried out by analyzing their photoluminescence spectra and decay times. Non-radiative energy transfer from Ce3+ to Tb3+ is observed upon near-UV excitation at 310 nm (peak emission wavelength of AlGaN-based LEDs). The non-radiative nature of this energy transfer is inferred from the increase in the decay rate of the Ce3+ emission when the glass is co-doped with Tb3+. From an analysis of the Ce3+ emission decay time curve it is inferred that an electric dipole-quadrupole interaction might to be the dominant mechanism for the Tb3+ emission sensitized by Ce3+. Energy transfer from Ce3+ to Tb3+ leads to a simultaneous emission of these ions in the blue, green, yellow and red, resulting in white light with CIE1931 chromaticity coordinates, x = 0.30 and y = 0.32, which correspond to cold white light with a colour temperature of 7320 K and very small deviation from the Planckian black-body radiator locus (0.005).

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)451-456
Number of pages6
JournalOptical Materials
Volume37
Issue numberC
DOIs
StatePublished - 2014

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Keywords

  • Ce
  • Germanate glass
  • Non-radiative energy transfer
  • Photoluminescence
  • Tb
  • White light

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