27Al MAS NMR spectroscopy study of Eu2+-doped and Dy3+-co-doped SrAl4O7

M. Misevičius, L. Dagys, A. Maršalka, K. Kristinaitytė, V. Balevičius
2020 Lithuanian Journal of Physics  
The Eu2+-doped strontium aluminate SrAl4O7 samples have shown the blue-green persistent luminescence at 490 nm while the co-doping with Dy3+ shifts the maximum of emission to 475 nm. Undoped, 3% Eu-doped and 6% Dy-co-doped SrAl4O7 samples were prepared by the solid state-reaction method and studied by the solid-state 27Al MAS NMR applying the single pulse-acquire and Hahn-echo pulse sequences. It was shown that the Eu2+ with Dy3+ ion doping did not affect the bulk structure as well as the local
more » ... Al environment in SrAl4O7. This means that large shifts of the emission maximum cannot be caused by changes in the local environment upon the co-doping of SrAl4O7:Eu2+ with Dy3+. However, the spectral features observed in the range between the signals of 4- and 6-coordinated Al (20–40 ppm) indicate that certain phase imperfections are present in all studied samples, and most probably amorphous/glassy domains were formed. Note that such amount of phase impurities was not detected by standard XRD or FTIR methods. This has revealed the 27Al MAS NMR technique to be a very effective tool monitoring the phase perfectness in series of strontium aluminate samples.
doi:10.3952/physics.v60i2.4224 fatcat:haga22lmkfbt7o77x2gkebvwcm