Persistence Mechanisms and Applications of Long Afterglow Phosphors

Abstract:

This article presents a broad review of long persistence (LP) materials that are a special kind of photon energy storage and conversion materials. They are also known as long afterglow phosphors or long decay phosphors (LDP). These phosphors can be readily excited by any ordinary household lamp, sunlight and/or ambient room lights and glow continuously in the dark for hours together without involving any radioactive elements. It is the modifications that are made to crystalline host lattice that exhibit these unusual properties related to persistence due to effective doping of some transition or rare-earth ions. A slight variation in the processing parameters such as type of reducing atmosphere, stoichiometric excess of one or more constituents, the nature of fluxes, and the intentional addition of carbon or rare-earth halides can drastically shift the emission colors and persistence times of the LP phosphors in the visible spectrum. Historically, Cu-doped ZnS phosphor had been a traditional LP material with its afterglow time less than an hour. The emission color of these LP phosphors was confined between green and yellow-green region only. However, synthesis of blue and red-emitting phosphors with long persistence times had been always a challenging task. This review article covers the recent advances in the blue, green and red-emitting LP phosphors/nanophosphors, persistence mechanism involved and the basic problems associated with their luminescence efficiency and persistence times. Modifications to existing nanosynthesis protocols to formulate a nontoxic Green Chemistry Route are also presented.Contents of Paper1. Long Afterglow Phosphors

• Periodical: Defect and Diffusion Forum (Volume 361)
• Pages: 69-94
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/DDF.361.69
• Online since: January 2015
• Authors: V. Shanker, D. Haranath*, G. Swati
• Keywords: Afterglow Spectra, Dark Vision Display, Long-Decay Phosphors, Persistence Luminescence, Thermoluminescence, Trapping Centers

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