A novel strategy to motivate the luminescence efficiency of a phosphor: drilling nanoholes on the surface

Chem Commun (Camb). 2018 Apr 3;54(28):3480-3483. doi: 10.1039/C7CC09842A.

Abstract

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.