High-temperature red fluorescent material and preparation method thereof
Technical Field
The invention relates to a high-temperature red fluorescent material and a preparation method thereof, belonging to the technical field of rare earth luminescent materials.
Background
The advent of high efficiency blue light chips (LEDs) has made white LEDs an important way to obtain white light and has evolved into fourth generation illumination sources. In 1996, Japan first develops yellow light garnet (YAG) fluorescent powder, cooperates with blue light LED to obtain high-efficiency white light source. The blue light excites the YAG fluorescent powder, part of the blue light is absorbed by the fluorescent powder to excite yellow light, and the rest part of the blue light is mixed with the yellow light to form white light. The white light realization mode has lower cost and is a mode widely adopted at present, however, the fluorescent powder lacks red light components, so the color rendering index is poor, the color temperature is higher, the adjustment is difficult, and warm white light cannot be obtained. Another way of generating white light with the assistance of phosphor is to use a near ultraviolet LED to excite the mixture of red, green and blue phosphors to realize white light, where the ultraviolet LED has stronger excitation intensity and higher conversion efficiency, however, the red phosphor has lower luminous efficiency than the blue-green phosphor, such as Y2O 2S: eu (Eu)3+The phosphor has low energy conversion efficiency and poor thermal stability. So far, blue chip LEDs are relatively widely used, but the emitted white light lacks long-wavelength light components, and the color of the device changes with the thickness of the phosphor coating, the color repeatability of each LED is poor, the color rendering index is low, and the luminous intensity gradually decreases with the temperature, resulting in performance degradation.
The current applications are mainly sulfide phosphor (Sr, Ca) S: eu (Eu)2+. However, the instability of sulfide in the using process and environmental pollution lead people to continuously develop red phosphor powder capable of replacing the existing sulfide. Fluorescent materials based on strong absorption of 420-470nm red light are very few, and when the temperature of a blue chip risesWhen the vibrational energy of the atoms is higher than a certain value, electrons exchange energy with lattice atoms (or ions) when they transition from an excited state to a ground state, and nonradiative transition occurs. After the temperature rises to a certain degree, the emission intensity decreases. At present, high-stability red fluorescent powder which has excellent performance and can avoid the thermal quenching problem caused by the long-time working and heating of a blue light chip is not available in the market, and the three-primary-color fluorescent powder for the white light illumination LED based on a near ultraviolet or blue light diode, in particular to high-temperature-resistant red fluorescent powder which can be excited by blue light.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to provide a high-temperature red fluorescent material and a preparation method thereof, which solve the problems that in the prior art, the red light component of an emission spectrum is less, the color rendering index is lower, and single white light cannot be synthesized, and the problems of thermal quenching caused by overheating of the red fluorescent powder under the condition of long-time work at the present stage, and the like, and the luminous intensity of the material at high temperature (about 200 ℃) can be increased by 30-60% compared with the luminous intensity at normal temperature. The high-temperature red fluorescent material capable of being excited by the blue light chip is realized. The method can be suitable for high-temperature environments or high-power LED devices, and has a huge application prospect.
A high-temperature red fluorescent material and a preparation method thereof belong to the technical field of rare earth luminescent materials. The red fluorescent material is Cr3+The activated fluorescent powder is solid solution and has a chemical general formula of La3-yMyGa5GeO14: x A, wherein A is Cr3+M is Gd3+,Y3+,Lu3+X is more than 0 and less than or equal to 0.2, and y is more than or equal to 0 and less than or equal to 1.5;
the preparation method of the red fluorescent powder comprises the following steps:
(1) the raw material La is added2O3、Ga2O3、GeO2、Cr2O3、M2O3Mixing the ingredients according to the general formula of the finally prepared fluorescent powder, adding alcohol, grinding and uniformly mixing;
(2) grinding and uniformly mixing the raw materials weighed in the step (1);
(3) then the mixed raw materials are put into a crucible and are kept at the temperature of 1100-1450 ℃ in the atmospheric environment for 4-8 hours; cooling to room temperature, sintering into block solid solution, grinding into powder to obtain La3-yMyGa5GeO14: x A Single phase powder.
The invention has the beneficial effects that:
the red fluorescent powder has good chemical thermal stability and high excitation efficiency, can obtain red luminescence about 700nm under the excitation of blue light (466nm), can be matched with a blue LED, can improve the luminous intensity by 30-60 percent compared with the luminous intensity at normal temperature within the temperature range of 50-200 ℃, and is novel high-temperature red fluorescent powder. The method can be suitable for high-temperature environments or high-power LED devices, and has a huge application prospect.
Drawings
FIG. 1 shows excitation spectra of the phosphor of embodiment 1 of the present invention;
FIG. 2 shows an emission spectrum of the phosphor of embodiment 1 of the present invention;
FIG. 3 is a graph showing the change in emission intensity with an increase in temperature of the phosphor according to embodiment 1 of the present invention;
Detailed Description
The invention will be described in more detail with reference to the following figures and embodiments, but the scope of the invention is not limited thereto.
Detailed description of the preferred embodiment 1
1. The general chemical formula of the red fluorescent material prepared in this example is La2GdGa4.99GeO14:0.01Cr3+. The average particle size of the phosphor is 15-20 μm, and the main phase structure of the phosphor belongs to a trigonal system. The preparation method comprises the following steps:
(1) according to La2O3(99.99%)∶Ga2O3(99.99%)∶GeO2(99.99%)∶Cr2O3(99.99%)∶ Gd2O3(99.99%) in a molar ratio of 2: 4.99: 1: 0.01: 1, and La was accurately weighed2O3(99.99%),Ga2O3(99.99%), GeO2(99.99%),Cr2O3(99.99%),Gd2O3(99.99%) in an agate mortar, adding 120% alcohol by volume fraction, grinding for 0.7h, and mixing uniformly.
(2) Placing the mixture obtained in the step (1) in a corundum crucible, sintering for 6 hours at 1250 ℃ in air atmosphere, cooling to room temperature, and grinding to obtain the high-temperature red fluorescent powder La2GdGa4.99GeO14:0.01Cr3+。
The excitation spectrum of the obtained fluorescent powder is shown in figure 1, and it can be seen from figure 1 that the excitation peak has stronger excitation at 466nm, the excitation wavelength of the fluorescent powder is just positioned at the blue light position and matched with the excitation wavelength of the LED blue light chip, and the fluorescent powder is suitable for the excitation of a blue light LED. The excitation spectrum of the obtained phosphor is shown in FIG. 2, and the emission spectrum of the phosphor has a main emission peak at 718nm and emits bright red light. The thermal stability of the obtained phosphor is shown in FIG. 3, and its thermal stability is that the luminous intensity at 150 deg.C is increased with the temperature, and compared with the luminous intensity at room temperature, the luminous intensity can be increased by 40%
Detailed description of the preferred embodiment 2
The general chemical formula of the red fluorescent material prepared in this example is La2YGa4.99GeO14∶0.01Cr3+. The average particle size of the phosphor is 15-20 μm, and the main phase structure of the phosphor belongs to a trigonal system. The preparation method comprises the following steps:
(1) according to La2O3(99.99%)∶Ga2O3(99.99%)∶GeO2(99.99%)∶Cr2O3(99.99%)∶ Y2O3(99.99%) in a molar ratio of 2: 4.99: 1: 0.01: 1, and La was accurately weighed2O3(99.99%),Ga2O3(99.99%), GeO2(99.99%),Cr2O3(99.99%),Y2O3(99.99%) in an agate mortar, adding 140% volume fraction alcohol, grinding for 0.5h, and mixing well.
(2) Placing the mixture obtained in the step (1) in a corundum crucible, sintering for 5 hours at 1230 ℃ in air atmosphere, cooling to room temperature, and grinding to obtain the high-temperature red fluorescent powder La2YGa4.99GeO14:0.01Cr3+。
The obtained fluorescent powder is matched with the excitation wavelength of the LED blue light chip and is suitable for excitation of the blue light LED. The emission spectrum of the obtained phosphor has a main emission peak at 718nm and emits bright red light. The luminous intensity of the obtained fluorescent powder can be improved by 30-50% compared with the luminous intensity at normal temperature within the range of about 170 ℃.
Detailed description of the preferred embodiment 3
The general chemical formula of the red fluorescent material prepared in this example is La2 LuGa4.99GeO14:0.01Cr3+. The average particle size of the phosphor is 15-20 μm, and the main phase structure of the phosphor belongs to a trigonal system. The preparation method comprises the following steps:
(1) according to La2O3(99.99%)∶Ga2O3(99.99%)∶GeO2(99.99%)∶Cr2O3(99.99%)∶ Lu2O3(99.99%) in a molar ratio of 2: 4.99: 1: 0.01: 1, and La was accurately weighed2O3(99.99%),Ga2O3(99.99%), GeO2(99.99%),Cr2O3(99.99%),Lu2O3(99.99%) in an agate mortar, adding 140% volume fraction alcohol, grinding for 0.5h, and mixing well.
(2) Placing the mixture obtained in the step (1) in a corundum crucible, sintering for 7 hours at 1300 ℃ in air atmosphere, cooling to room temperature, and grinding to obtain the high-temperature red fluorescent powder La2LuGa4.99GeO14:0.01Cr3+。
The obtained fluorescent powder is matched with the excitation wavelength of the LED blue light chip and is suitable for excitation of the blue light LED. The emission spectrum of the obtained phosphor has a main emission peak at 718nm and emits bright red light. The luminous intensity of the obtained fluorescent powder can be improved by about 60 percent compared with the luminous intensity at normal temperature within the range of about 200 ℃ in thermal stability.
While the present invention has been described in detail with reference to the embodiments shown in the drawings, the present invention is not limited to the embodiments, and various changes can be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention.