Tailoring the optical properties of lanthanide phosphors: prediction and characterization of the luminescence of Pr3+-doped LiYF4
- Ramanantoanina, Harry Department of Chemistry of the University of Fribourg, Switzerland
- Urland, Werner Department of Chemistry of the University of Fribourg, Switzerland
- Herden, Benjamin Department of Chemistry of the University of Fribourg, Switzerland
- Cimpoesu, Fanica Institute of Physical Chemistry, Bucharest, Romania
- Daul, Claude Department of Chemistry of the University of Fribourg, Switzerland
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27.03.2015
Published in:
- Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. - 2015, vol. 17, no. 14, p. 9116–9125
English
We present a theoretical work detailing the electronic structure and the optical properties of (PrF₈)⁵⁻ embedded in LiYF₄, complementing the insight with data that are not available by experimental line. The local distortions due to the embedding of the lanthanide ion in the sites occupied in the periodic lattice by smaller yttrium centres, not detectable in regular X-ray analyses, are reproduced with the help of geometry optimization. Then, based on the local coordination environment, the relation structure–optical properties is constructed by Density Functional Theory computations in conjunction with the ligand field theory analyses (LFDFT) determining the [Xe]4f² → [Xe]4f¹5d¹ transitions. In previous instances we analysed rather symmetric systems, here facing the complexity of low symmetry cases, treated in the Wybourne ligand field parameterization and in the Angular Overlap Model (AOM) frame. A very important improvement at the AOM level is the consideration of the f–d mixing that brings coupling term of odd–even nature, essential for the realistic description of the asymmetric coordination centres. Furthermore, we introduce now a principle for modelling the emission intensity. The results are in agreement with available experimental findings. The relevance of the modelling has a practical face in the rational design of optimal luminescent materials needed in domestic lightening and also an academic side, revisiting with modern computational tools areas incompletely explored by the standard ligand field theories.
- Faculty
- Faculté des sciences et de médecine
- Department
- Département de Chimie
- Language
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- English
- Classification
- Chemistry
- License
- License undefined
- Identifiers
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- RERO DOC 255775
- DOI 10.1039/C4CP05148C
- Persistent URL
- https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/304416
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