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Novel multiple phosphorescence in nanostructured zinc oxide and calculations of correlated colour temperature

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Title Novel multiple phosphorescence in nanostructured zinc oxide and calculations of correlated colour temperature
 
Creator Das, Sagnik
Ghorai, Uttam Kumar
Dey, Rajib
Ghosh, Chandan Kumar
Pal, Mrinal
 
Subject Electronics
 
Description The design and development of novel and high quantum efficiency luminescent materials, such as phosphors, having tuneability in properties, have received tremendous interest among scientists. In this paper, we have achieved for the first-time multiple phosphorescence (blue and green) having a life-time of similar to 10 mu s in nanostructured zinc oxide that was synthesized using an easy and facile sol-gel method. Importantly, the photoluminescence (PL) intensity and the phosphorescence life-time could be tuned by controlling the annealing temperature under a reducing atmosphere. Temperature and atmosphere dependent variation of V-O] and V-O(center dot)] has been interpreted by the detailed thermodynamic analysis of defect chemistry, for the first time. These nanostructured zinc oxide particles being sufficiently large in size (around 160 nm) are extremely stable and expected to show photoluminescence for a longer period of time than nanorods and quantum dots. The quantum yield was found to be as high as 13-15% which is comparable to the order of magnitude of that of quantum dots. The calculated correlated colour temperature is found to be suitable for cool lighting applications.
 
Publisher Royal Society of Chemistry
 
Date 2017-09
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://cgcri.csircentral.net/4017/1/rajib.pdf
Das, Sagnik and Ghorai, Uttam Kumar and Dey, Rajib and Ghosh, Chandan Kumar and Pal, Mrinal (2017) Novel multiple phosphorescence in nanostructured zinc oxide and calculations of correlated colour temperature. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 19 (34). pp. 22995-23006. ISSN 1463-9076
 
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