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Na(1-x)Lix(Gd0.39Y0.39Yb0.2Er0.02)F4 (0 #x #1) solid solution microcrystals: Li/Na ratio-induced transition of crystalline phase and morphology, and their enhanced upconversion emission Ran Luo, Tao Li, Yang Chen, Zhanglei Ning, Yan Zhao, Mengjiao Liu, Xin Lai, Cheng Zhong, Chao Wang, Jian Bi, and Daojiang Gao Cryst. Growth Des., Just Accepted Manuscript • DOI: 10.1021/acs.cgd.8b00791 • Publication Date (Web): 08 Oct 2018 Downloaded from http://pubs.acs.org on October 15, 2018
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Na(1-x)Lix(Gd0.39Y0.39Yb0.2Er0.02)F4 (0 ≤x ≤1) solid solution microcrystals: Li/Na ratio-induced transition of crystalline phase and morphology, and their enhanced upconversion emission Ran Luoa, Tao Lia, Yang Chena, Zhanglei Ninga, Yan Zhaoa*, Mengjiao Liua, Xin Laia, Cheng Zhongb, Chao Wangc, Jian Bia, Daojiang Gaoa* a College
of Chemistry and Materials Science, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu
610068, China b Department
of Basic Education, Dazhou Vocational and Technical College, Dazhou
635001, China c Clean
Energy Materials and Engineering Center, State Key Laboratory of Electronic Thin
Films and Integrated Devices, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, 611731, P.R. China
Corresponding author: Yan Zhao and Daojiang Gao E-mail address:
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Abstract: Na(1-x)Lix(Gd0.39Y0.39Yb0.2Er0.02)F4 (0≤x≤1) (denoted as Na(1-x)LixReF4) solid solution microcrystals with different microstructures have been synthesized by a facile hydrothermal method. The influences of Li+ ion concentration on the morphology, crystal structure, grain size and upconversion emission of the microcrystals are deeply investigated. It is found that the substitution concentration of Li+ not only causes the phase transition, but also induces variation in morphology and size. When the substitution concentration of Li+ ions is lower (x≤0.3), the obtained Na(1-x)LixReF4 microcrystals possess hexagonal structure and exhibit hexagonal prism in morphology. Whereas at the higher substitution concentration of Li+ ions (x≥0.6), the crystalline phase of the final Na(1-x)LixReF4 microcrystals transformed into tetragonal structure and their morphology changed into octahedron except for the sample Na(1-x)LixReF4 with x = 0.9. Predictably, the obtained Na(1-x)LixReF4 microcrystals at the moderate substitution concentration of Li+ ions ( x= 0.4 and 0.5) own the coexistent phases of hexagonal and tetragonal, and display the obvious symbiotic morphologies of hexagonal prism and octahedron. All the samples showed characteristic emission peaks in green and red region with center wavelengths at 522 nm, 542 nm and 652 nm respectively, and their upconversion intensities initially lift and then drop with the increasing x, giving the maximum at x=0.5. Specifically, for the co-doped Na0.5Li0.5ReF4 microcrystal, its UC intensity of the strongest green emission at
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542 nm is about 18 times and 73 times greater than that of the co-doped NaReF4 and LiReF4 microcrystals, respectively. Moreover, the variation amplitude of intensity for the green emission bands is much greater than that of the red emission with the increasing x. It could obtain a superior host matrix for upconversion luminescence by means of the formation of Na(1-x)LixReF4 solid solution at the feasible substitution concentration of Li+ (0.2
