Mixing entropy and enthalpy effects on europium ions in Eu-doped BaAl2O4

Distributions of Eu2+ and Eu3+ do affect the optical properties. However, the substitution of the activator ions hardly perturbed the crystal structure of the host lattice. Without the differences in crystal structure, it is not trivial to develop an effective descriptor to investigate stoichiometry...

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Veröffentlicht in:Applied physics letters 2024-02, Vol.124 (9)
Hauptverfasser: Wu, Yu-Hao, Lam, Tu-Ngoc, Ke, Sun-Way, Lee, Wen-Jay, Lee, Chien-Yu, Chen, Bo-Yi, Yin, Gung-Chian, Hsieh, Wan-Zhen, Chiang, Ching-Yu, Tang, Mau-Tsu, Lin, Bi-Hsuan, Huang, E-Wen
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Zusammenfassung:Distributions of Eu2+ and Eu3+ do affect the optical properties. However, the substitution of the activator ions hardly perturbed the crystal structure of the host lattice. Without the differences in crystal structure, it is not trivial to develop an effective descriptor to investigate stoichiometry-dependent mechanism to explore the effects of Eu species on valence states. In this study, through x-ray nanodiffraction, x-ray fluorescence, x-ray absorption near edge structure, and x-ray excited optical luminescence, we mapped the valence state distributions of Eu species to calculate the local mixing enthalpy and entropy. The calculated thermodynamics parameters show good agreement with the optical properties. We found that Eu2+ of Eu-doped BaAl2O4 predominantly existed in a divalent state, which results in segregation phenomena of local Eu2+ and Eu3+ ions.
ISSN:0003-6951
1077-3118
DOI:10.1063/5.0187000