Designing a Polyphosphate Polymorph of CsMg(PO3)(3) as Host Lattice for Preparing Single Mn2+-Oxidation Doped Phosphor in the Open Environment

Within Mn-activated phosphors, the oxidation state of Mn dopant strongly depends on the structural features of the host lattice. This paper reported a new polymorph of CsMg(PO3)(3) (CMP) with a complicated three-dimensional (3D) framework of [Mg(PO3)(3)](infinity) that is constructed by MgO6 octahedra and 1D infinite [PO3](infinity) chains. Then we prepared a series of red phosphors CsMg1-x(PO3)(3):xMn(2+) (CMP:xMn(2+)) by high temperature solid state reactions in the open air. Powder X-ray diffraction (XRD), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), and photoluminescence (PL) studies revealed the single Mn2+-oxidation. Under 404 nm light exciting, CMP:0.2Mn(2+) can emit single-band emission at around 630 nm with full-width at half-maximum (fwhm) of 70 nm. Besides, CMP:0.2Mn(2+) possesses excellent thermostability up to 450 K. These features indicate that CMP:0.2Mn(2+) is suitable to be used for LED backlight display. Moreover, this work suggests that a host lattice with suitable structure feature can form single Mn2+-oxidation and is rigid enough to protect Mn2+ from being oxidized by O-2 at high temperature.