Abstract
Similar to many other Eu2+,RE3+-co-doped persistent luminescence materials, for Sr2MgSi2O7:Eu2+,RE3+ the initial intensity and duration of persistent luminescence was also found to depend critically on the rare-earth (RE) co-doping. An enhancement of 1 - 2 orders of magnitude in these properties could be obtained by Dy3+ co-doping whereas total quenching of persistent luminescence resulted from the use of Sm3+ and Yb3+. To solve this drastic disparity, the effects of the individual RE3+ ions were studied with thermoluminescence (TL) spectroscopy to derive information about the formation of traps storing the excitation energy. The charge compensation defects were concluded to be the origin of the complex TL glow curve structure. The tuning of the band gap of the Sr2MgSi2O7 host and especially the position of the bottom of the conduction band due to the Eu2+,RE3+ co-doping was measured with the synchrotron radiation vacuum UV (VUV) excitation spectra of the Eu2+ dopant. The model based on the evolution of the band gap energy with RE3+ co-doping was found to explain the intensity and duration of the persistent luminescence.
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