Highly Efficient Narrow‐Band Green Emission in LaZn1‐xMnxAl11O19 Magnetoplumbite Phosphors toward White LED Application and Optical Thermometer

Abstract

AbstractMn2+‐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 LaZn1−xMnxAl11O19 (0.01 ≤ x ≤ 0.30) magnetoplumbite phosphors (λem = 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 Mn2+ into LaZnAl11O19, a broadband red emission peaking at ≈672–697 nm appears upon blue light excitation due to the Mn2+–Mn2+ super‐exchange interactions. A dual‐wavelength emission in LaZn1−xMnxAl11O19 (0.5 ≤ x ≤ 1.0) phosphors provides thermal‐sensitive emission for ratiometric temperature sensing with good relative sensitivity. Benefitting from the Eu2+ → Mn2+ energy transfer, the green emission from Mn2+ is increased by 26 times, and the internal QY of La0.97Zn1−xMnxAl11O19:0.03Eu2+ 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 Mn2+‐doped phosphors in mineral structure with photoluminescence control based on high symmetry and Mn2+–Mn2+ dimers.