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Energy transfer; phosphors

Calcium metasilicate phosphors activated by Ce³⁺ and Tb³⁺ have been studied for their emission characteristics. In two series of phosphors, one activator was kept at its optimum value while the other was varied. In another two series, one activator was kept below its optimum value and the other was varied. Concentration quenching effects start when each activator gives its maximum emission. There is clear evidence of an energy transfer from Ce³⁺ to Tb³⁺ because the⁵D₃ lines appear on addition of Ce³⁺ while they were conspicuously absent when Tb³⁺ alone was present. Their absence in singly activated phosphors could not have been due to cross-relaxation. Obviously X-ray excitation does not lead to⁵D₃ transitions which are achieved only by energy transfer. Further, considering the features of the emission spectra and the concentrations of activators used, the transfer could only be of the dipole-dipole type.

R V Subrahmanyam¹ Shishir Jain¹ Ashish Verma¹ S Sivaraman¹

1. Department of Physics, Dr. Harisingh Gour Vishwavidyalaya, Sagar - 470 003, India

Published

December 1996

Manuscript received

3 January 1995

Manuscript revised

13 September 1996