A novel strategy to motivate the luminescence efficiency of a phosphor: drilling nanoholes on the surface.
Liang-Jun YinYing-Lin LiangSheng-Hui ZhangMeng WangLangkai LiWen-Jie XieHao ZhongXian JianXin XuXin WangLong-Jiang DengPublished in: Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) (2018)
A facile approach to fabricate nanoholes on the surface of a phosphor via a carbothermal reaction between C and BaMgAl10O17 was adopted. Drilling nanoholes greatly enhanced excitation light absorption and consequently increased the quantum efficiency, which provided new insight to help improve the luminescence efficiency of oxygen-containing phosphors.