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Waterproof Alkyl Phosphate Coated Fluoride Phosphors for Optoelectronic Materials.

Waterproof Alkyl Phosphate Coated Fluoride Phosphors for Optoelectronic Materials.

Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) (2015-07-28)

Hoang-Duy Nguyen, Chun Che Lin, Ru-Shi Liu

ABSTRACT

A facile approach for coating red fluoride phosphors with a moisture-resistant alkyl phosphate layer with a thickness of 50-100 nm is reported. K2 SiF6 :Mn(4+) particles were prepared by co-precipitation and then coated by esterification of P2 O5 with alcohols (methanol, ethanol, and isopropanol). This route was adopted to encapsulate the prepared phosphors using transition-metal ions as cross-linkers between the alkyl phosphate moieties. The coated phosphor particles exhibited a high water tolerance and retained approximately 87 % of their initial external quantum efficiency after aging under high-humidity (85 %) and high-temperature (85 °C) conditions for one month. Warm white-light-emitting diodes that consisted of blue InGaN chips, the prepared K2 SiF6 :Mn(4+) phosphors, and either yellow Y3 Al5 O12 :Ce(3+) phosphors or green β-SiAlON: Eu(2+) phosphors showed excellent color rendition.

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