Preparation and Luminescent Properties of Ti‐Activated Zirconia
Preparation and Luminescent Properties of Ti‐Activated Zirconia
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DOI:
10.1149/1.2423883
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发表时间:
1966-02
影响因子:
3.9
通讯作者:
J. F. Sarver
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作者:
J. F. Sarver
Very pure monoclinic ZrO2 prepared from recrystallized zirconium oxychloride and activated with 0.08% Ti 4+ responds well to 2537A and cathoderay excitation. A room temperature quantum efficiency of 70%, relative to MgWO4, has been attained with 2537A excitation. The emission band extends from below 4000 to above 6500A, peaking at 4800A. The phosphor has a broad excitation spectrum and responds almost equally well to wavelengths between 2100 and 2600A. At 20~ the response to 2537A excitation is about 82% of the maximum response which occurs at about--60~ The initial decay is exponential with rate constant~ z 1.5 x 105 sec-1, but the visually detectable persistence lasts several minutes. The long persistence is associated with glow peaks which were found to exist above 20~ Additional stronger glow peaks occur at lower temperatures.Prior to this investigation it was observed by the author that several commercial sources of monoclinic zirconia responded to 2537A and cathode-ray excitation, yielding a blue-white luminescence with a long persistence. ZrO2 prepared from an experimental sample of hydrous zirconium carbonate, which is a relatively high purity zirconium compound manufactured by the Titanium Alloy Manufacturing Division of the National Lead Company, appeared to be only weakly luminescent. Similar observations have been mentioned previously in the literature (1, 2). Further interest in this phenomenon was stimulated by a paper of Harrison, Melamed, and Subbarao (2) who prepared several compounds having the same generalized formula. Of special interest was a series of isostructural compounds having the generalized formula R22+ ZrR25+ 09 where R 2+ is Sr 2+, Ba 2+, or Pb 2+, and R 5+ is p5+ or As 5+. These compounds responded to 2537A excitation and exhibited broad emission bands with peak wavelengths between 4840 and 4920A. They also found a similar emission for the monoclinic ZrO2 used in the preparation of the ternary compounds. The marked similarity in the absorption, excitation, and emission spectra of these isotypic compounds and of ZrO2 suggested to the authors that the phosphors were of the self-activated type, as are certain tungstate and molybdate compounds. They suggested the possibility that the luminescence is related to an asymmetric coordination of oxygens about the Zr 4+ ions. The oxygen coordination of zirconium in monoclinic ZrO2 is indeed asymmetric and unusual. According to McCullough and Trueblood (3), the zir-