A Novel Highly Efficient Host‐Sensitized Red Emitting (Ba 2 YV 3 O 11 : Eu 3+ ) Phosphor for Hybrid White LEDs

The present investigation focused on the sequence of Eu 3+ activated red‐emitting vanadate phosphor for the high performance white LEDs. The blue emitting host lattice (Ba 2 YV 3 O 11 ) and red emitting Ba 2 YV 3 O 11  : Eu 3+ phosphors were synthesized by the conventional solid‐state method and studied their optical properties in details. The host lattice and Eu 3+ activated red phosphors were crystallized in the monoclinic crystal system. The Ba 2 YV 3 O 11 emission was found in the bluish‐green region (444 and 512 nm, which corresponds to the 3 T 2 → 1 A 1 and 3 T 1 → 1 A 1 transitions), and the Eu 3+ activated phosphors (Ba 2 Y 1‐x Eu x V 3 O 11, x=0‐1, insteps of 0.1) display intense red emission at 618 nm due to the 5 D 0 → 7 F 2 electric dipole (ED) transition. The concentration quenching was observed at x=0.6, the detailed energy transfer mechanism was also explored. Thermal stability of the Ba 2 Y 0.4 Eu 0.6 V 3 O 11 red phosphor retains the ∼60 % emission intensity at 423 K, and the internal quantum efficiency (IQE) was found to be 30 %. The red and white LEDs were fabricated by using the synthesized red phosphor with the combination of near UV LED (n‐UV), the white LED showed white emission with CIE is x=0.359; y=0.395; higher CRI (89) and low CCT (4693 K) values. These results prescribe that the presently synthesized phosphor can act as a suitable red‐emitting component in hybrid white LEDs.