Journal of the Korean Chemical Society 1998, Vol. 42, No. 5
Printed in the Republic of Korea
초청총설논문
플라즈마 표시판용 형광체
김창홍* • 배현숙 • 변종홍 • 홍광옌
t
한국과학기 술연구원 재
료화학연구센터'중국과학원 장춘응용화학연구소
(1998.5.
21 접수)Phosphors for Plasma Display Panels
Chang-Hong Kim*, Hyun-Sook Bae, Chong-Hong Pyun, and Guang-Yan Hong*
Korea
Institue
ofScience and
Technology,Seoul
136-791, Korea^Changchun Institute of Applied
Chemistry,
Academia Sinica, P.R. China (ReceivedMay
21,1998)
요 약.
플라즈마 표시판용으로
사용되거나제안 또는
알려진 형광체들의들뜸
및발광 특성을
살펴보았
다. 각 형광체의 발광 효율이
임자결정과 활성제의 종류에 따라 어떻게
달라지는지 알아보았고
실용성있는
형광체의 개발
방향을
생각하였다.ABSTRACT. Excitation
and emission characteristics were reviewed for phosphors
whichwere reported, ap
plied, or
suggestedfor
the plasma display panel(PDP). Conelation
of luminescencecharacteristics
to thehost
cry stal structure
and theactivator of
the phosphorwas explained.
Improvementsof
thePDP phosphor for
theprac
ticality
were
considered.INTRODUCTION1^
High
definition television (HDTV)sets of large screen
cathode ray tubes(CRT)
are too bulkyand take up too much space
forthe
wide spread ac
ceptance.Thus
flat paneldisplays
(FPD)such as the
liquid crystal display (LCD),the eleo troluminescence
display(ELD) and
the plasmadis
play panel (PDP),
have
acompetitive edge in
thelarge
screen display market.The
LCD is oneof the
mostadvanced tech
nologies of
FPDs.Rather restricted viewing
angleof
the LCD,which was
oneof the weaknesses of the
LCD, hasbeen relieved by
employingthe thin film transistor (TFT)
activematrix
system. Howev
er, drawbacks suchas
theassembly
difficultyof the
largerscreen
and the slowresponse speed
aremain
obstacles forthe commerciallization
ofLCDs with screens
largerthan 30
inches. TheELD also
isfairly advanced but
fullcolor
ELDs are notavailable commercialy. Only monochrome and
mul
ticolor
ELDs are available forportable computers
andmedical
instruments.The PDP would
be the mostpromising
FPD forthe
wall-hanging HDTVbecause the
larger sizedPDP could
be madere
latively easily. And it
offersa fast response,
a wideviewing angle,
alow
energy consumption and otheradvantages.In PDPs,
three
primary colorphosphors are ex cited
bythe
vacuum ultraviolet(vuv)
radiation froman
inert gasplasma,
whichimposes
aunique
requirementsto the
phosphors.In
this paper wewill
discusscharacteristics
of phosphors andsome guidelines
on designing new materials for PDP.PHOSPHORS FOR PDPs
The gas discharge
FPD, i.e. PDP,was first
sug
gestedin 1964 by
D.L. Bitzer
at Universityof Il
linois.
5The general structure
ofa PDP cell is
shownin Fig. I.
6Phosphors
areexcited
bymore energetic
vuvradiation
of wavelengthsof
130nm,
—
588—
플라즈마 표시판용 형광체 589
Fig. 1.
Atypical cell structure of
a PDP. a:glass
sub
strate,b:
electrodes, c: R, G,or
Bphosphor, d: plasma
discharge,e:
visiblelight output.
147 nm
and
172 nm from Xeand Xe-He
discharges. The vuvradiation output of the
plasma sourcedepends
on the gasconstituent,
composition andthe
pressure asshown in
Fig. 2.7 The energyconversion efficiency of the
vuvin the range of 7
to12
eVinto
thevisible
isgenerallyhigher
atlow
erenergies.
Thus the xenon isthe
prefered con stituent
forthe PDP.
PDP phosphors
are strongly resemble flu
orescent lamp phosphors.Some of the phosphors
are listedin
Table1 along
with standardcolor coordinates
ofthe
NTSCred,
green,and
blue phos phors.8""17
Fromthe Table 1, fairly
low (near 1 %) radiantefficiencies
for thesephosphors
are no-(I )
WUBUIU브
Fig. 2.
Pressure dependenceof
the plasmavuv radiation.
Table 1. Characteristics
of
somephosphorsPhosphor
CIE coor
dinateRelative radiant efficiency
T니e (ms)
Bright
ness (cd/m2
)X y
NTSC Red
0.670.33
¥0
: EU0.648
0.347 0.67 1.3 62(Y,Gd)BO
3: Eu0.641
0.3561.2
4.3YBO3: Eu
0.35 1.0
GdBO3
:
Eu0.65
0.36 0.94 LuBO3 :
Eu 0.64 0.37 0.74S
cBO3 :
Eu 0.630.39
0.94 Y2SiO5: Eu 0.61
0.34 0.67 Y3AI5O12:
Eu 0.660.37
0.47 Zn3(PO4)2 :
Mn 0.63 0.33 0.3415.1
NTSC Green 0.210.71
Zn2
SiO4 :
Mn 0.2420.708 1.0
11.9365
BaAli20i9:
Mn 0.182 0.7321.1
7.1SrAl120i9:
Mn 0.160.75
0.62 CaAlizOz:
Mn0.15 0.75
0.34 ZnAl12Ol9 :
Mn 0.17 0.740.54 BaMgAhqm :
Mn 0.150.73
0.92 YBO3:
Tb 0.330.61
1.1 L11BO3 :Tb
0.33 0.611.1
GdBO3: Tb
0.330.61
0.53S
cBO3 : Tb
0.35 0.60 0.36 Sr4Si8O
6Cl4:
Eu 0.14 0.331.3 NTSC
Blue 0.14 0.08 BaMgAli0Oi7:
Eu 0.1470.067
BaMgAl14
O23 :
Eu 0.1420.087 1.6 < 1
Y2
SiO5
:Ce
0.16 0.091.1 < 1 CaW0
4: Pb
0.17 0.17 0.74 51ticeable.
Various hosts and
activators havebeen
studiedbut
phosphors withbetter performances
should befound
fora competitive PDP realization.
Until
recently, the
mainPDP
phosphors areY2
O3:
Eu
and(Y,Gd)BO
3: Eu
for red, Zn2SiO4
:Mn and BaAli20i9
: Mn forgreen,
andBaMgAl14
4O23
:Eu
andBaMgAlwO
23:Eu
forblue. Excitation and
em
issionspectra
of thesetricolor phosphors
are showninFig. 3a and b.
As listedin
Table 1,
decaytimesof
(Y,Gd)BC)
3: E
u3+ andBaAl^Om: Mn are somewhatlonger,
but thoseof Zn3(PO4
)2: Mn and
Zn2
SiO4:Mn
are toolong
forthe practical application. Since
decaytimes of
redand
greenphosphors
arelonger
toex
ploit the fast response
ofthe
PDP,they
아iouldbe
improved.The blue
phosphor BaMgAl14O
23
: Eu2+590 김창홍•배현숙•변종홍•홍광옌
1'0心
A은
으。통
A E P
흔 -
?
().0 100
i.o
0.5
150 200 250
wavelength
(nm)30。
(b)
100 200
wavelength
(nm)0.0
100
300
Fig. 4. Excitation spectra of
Y2O3: Eu
and (Y,Gd)BC)
3:Eu.
항
um-u흐
ib
B G R
V
0.0 匕-
400 500 600 700
wavelength
(nm)Fig. 3. (a)
Excitation spectraof R,
G,and B
phosphors,(b) Emission spectra
ofR,
G,and
B phosphors.R:
(Y,Gd) BO3:
Eu3+
, G:BaAli2Oi9 :
Mn,B:
BaMgAli4O2
3:Ei
产.has
a fast
decay time which is obscured by the plasma dischargedecay,
thus accuratemeas
urement
isnot easy.
HOST SENSITIZATION
When
phosphors areexcited by vuv, the
in fluence of the
host latticeisvery important. For ex
ample, the
emissionspectrum of (Y,Gd)B(
)3
: Eu+ peaks
atabout 595 nm
which is shorter than the peakemission wavelength
ofY2O3
: Eu. However,its performance
on excitation inthe vuv region
isbetter than
thatof Y2O3: Eu as shown
inFig.
4.The host excitation band
of
(Y,Gd)B()3
:Eu*
ap pears at
near160nm.
0
120 140 160 180 200 220 240 260 280 300 320
_
人exc(
nm)Fig. 5.
Excitation spectraof GdBOa:
Eu(a),GdBOs: Eu (b) and ScBO
3:
Tb(c).Comparing the Ei
产-activated
and Tb3+-activated Y
boratewith Gd
borateand Sc borate,
18 wecould
note thatthey all show
a peak inthe excitation
spectrumnear 160
nm (seeFig. 5
andFig.
6) withslight
differences inthe
peak intensities.The
Eu +-activated borates,
in particular, show high quantum efficiencies(see Table1).
Fig. 6. Excitation spectrum of
YA13
(BO4
)4:Tb.Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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Fig. 7. Excitation spectrum
of Eu(j.7(iLa(i.3oMgBsOi()(一)and
YV04 :
Eu(-).
Because peaks near 160 nm
are present bothin
Eu3+-and
inTb3+-activated
borates,the absorption in
thisregion
is mostprobably
dueto the
host lat tice,
i.e.,in the
BO3 groups.
The excitationspec
trum
Eu()
.7()Lao3()
MgB50i4 showsthe
host sen
sitization bandof
BO3 groups at around 150nm as in Fig.
7."The
excitation spectrum of Tb
xYi_xPO
4isshown in Fig.
8. Hoshina20 reported
thatpeakA is
aspin-
forbiddentransition
and B isa
spin-allowed4f-5d
transition. It isfound
that inTb
xYi_xPO
4peaks
C andA
have onetype of concentration
dependence, whilepeaks
Band
D exhibitanother
type ofcon
centration
dependence. The peak C can beas-
7
6
5
4
3
2
1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
A0U으
。%
뜨
p흔
6.
』
0.0
5() 100 150 200 250
wavelength
(nm)Fig. 9.
Excitation spectra of Sr3(PO4)2 : Eu
andBas(PO4)2 :Eu.
cribed
to
a spin-forbiddentransition as
A, and the peak D to a spin-allowedtransition as
B. The band witha
peakat 150-160
nm is assumed to be a host sensitization bandof the PO
43 group. The fact that this excitation band isfound
forYPO
4 hostcan
beinterpreted as a
resultof an efficient energy
transferfromPO
43
-group to the
activator.Excitation spectra of
Sr3(P()4
)2
:Eu and Ba«PO4
)2 :Eu
are shown inFig.
9.21 Excitation band witha peakaround 125 nm
is observed inthe excitation
spectrumof the (PO4)*
.While
4f-5d transitions of Tb3+ in TbP50i4
arenearly the same as in other
type of phosphatesas
shownin
Fig.10, but
the160 nm 160 nm
10 9 8 7 6 5 4
photon energy (eV)
Fig. 8. Excitation spectra of
Tbx
Yi-xPO4.
10 9 8 7 6 5 4
photon energy
(eV)Fig. 10. Excitation spectrum of TbPsOu.
592 김창홍•배현숙•변종홍•홍광옌
Fig.
11. Excitation spectra of
phosphors,(a)
BaAlizOm:
Mn, (b) BaMgAli4O23 :
Mn, (c) BaMgAliQ23:
Eu.host
sensitization
bandof P5
0i43groups
shiftsto longer wavelength
of near135
nm compared to di phosphates.
All the excitation
spectraof
BaAl120i9: Mn
with BaMgAli4O
23: Mn
andBaMgAli4O23
:Eu give
a weakbandnear 175
nmas shown in Fig. 11. This
can be attributed tothe host
sensitization bandof aluminates
atthis
range.As shown
in Fig. 12,
CaO: Eu3+gives an
ab sorption
band at 205 nm which ispresumed
22to
be a hostexcitation
banddue to
a transition fromthe
valence band to theconduction
band z.e., theexcitation
energy isabsorbed by the
hostand transfened
tothe
activator inthe relaxation pro
cess. The 254-nm band
is
the well knowncharge
transfer bandin Eu-0
z.e., theelectron transfer
fromoxygen
toEu% ion.
In
the oxyfluoride system (CaF2
,CaO)
: Eu3+
a broad bandmerged
with additionalfeatures
fromCaF2
: Eu3+in the higher
energy region appearswith
increasedvuv absorption as
shown inFig. 13.
By
comparing the excitation spectrum of
CaO: E
u3+ with that
of(CaF2,
CaO):
Eu3+
it is quiteeasy
tonotice that the introduction
of F ions inthe
host latticeshifts
allthe features
to ahigher
en
ergyregion.
Thisis
infull agreement with the
fact thatthe charge
transferoccurs
athigher energy in Eu-F
systemthan in the oxygen dominating lattice,
according tothe respective electronegativity of
theligand.
Fig.
12. Excitation spectrum of
CaO:
Eu자.
In
orderto checkthe
fluoridebehavior,the LaF3 :E
u3+ phosphorwas investigated as
shown inFig.
14.
Thefeatures on the
excitationspectrum
are clearly identifiable:the
charge transfer (CT) band occursat
170 nmand the
band to band transitionat
125nm. The host
sensitization bandsin
rareearth
ion activatedLiYF4, LaF
3and YF3
arere
ported
tobeat near
120nm.
23~28
As explained
above the host
sensitiztion bandindifferent
hosts havedifferent
position,and the host sensitization
bandpositions
are:oxide
(CaO:
Eu,〜wavelength
(nm)
Fig. 13. Excitation spectrum of (CaF2,CaO) : Eu*.
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흐
100 150 200 250 300
wavelength
(nm)
Fig. 14. Excitation spectrum of
LaFz:
Eu3+.
200
nm) >multialuminate
(BaMgAl14O23:
Eu,-175
nm) >borate (YBO3:
Eu, 150-170 nm) >vanadate (YVO4:
Eu,-150 nm)=phosphate
(YPO4
: Eu,-150
nm) >pentaphosphate (TbP5O]4, -135
nm) > di
phosphate(Ba3
(PO4)2
: Eu,~125
nm)>fluoride(LaF3
:Eu or
LiYF4: Eu, -120 nm). These
resultswould be
thebasis of
designing newmaterials
for PDP phosphors.THE EFFECT OF CATION (rare-earth ion)
The
energy of thefirst
f-dtransitionin trivalent lanthanide
ionand
band gapenergy of the three
differentfluorides29
aresummerized in
Table 2.Table
2 showsthat the
energylevel
ofrare earth
trivalent ion arespreaded
overthe
rangeof vuv and the phosphors with these
hosts areexcited by the
vuv.When
Sm3+,
Eu3+ or Gd3+ are doped inYPO4
,the
host sensitization bandof YPO
4stays
un
changed inthe
excitation spectraat around
152 nm as showninFig.
Excitation spectra of
LaPO4, GdPO4, YPO
4and L
uPO4
activatedwith 0.5-2 mol%
of Eu3+
are shown inFig. 16.
Itisnoted
thatYPO
4and LuPO
4show the
similar spectra andso
do LaPO4 and
GdPO4. Peak positions
ofthe
host sensitization bandof
LaPO4 (159 nm)and GdPO4 (160
nm) areTable
2. Thefirstf-dtransition
energyof lanthanides
inflouride hosts
No.
Em"of
tri-valentRE
ionsin
Element 罕 LiYF
4 YF3
LaF3
e (eV)
(nm)
(eV) (nm) (eV)(nm)
Ce 1
4.19 4.9253 4.96
250Pr
2
5.85Zvo
6.59
188 6.59 188
Nd
3 7.1 ZiZ
7.33
169 7.65 162
Pm
4- 175 - - -
-56 78 9 10 11 12 13
30-5
6 8 5 5 5
■84 - 0 -0,
-
&9
&
5 8 3
•83 - 3 6
&
&
9.2 8.658.65 3
5 1 4 4 6 - 4 5 9 5 5 5 - Ld
11 1
丄
11 1
丄
1
2 3 - 8
% 95 3 - 1
2 3
-
1 2
- o 2
8 55 8 5
5 3 3 5 3 4 4 0
8 9 4 4 4 1 L L
Eband” 10.55
117.5 10.53 118 10.51 118
Echar]
7.9 157
7.88157 7 177
"Ef_d: thefirst f-d
transition
energy.h
Ebantb
bandto
bandtransition energy of
thehost. '
Echarge: charge transfer
en
ergyof
thehost.very
closeto
eachother and
are shifted tolonger
wavelengthsthan that of YPO
4(152
nm)and L
uPO4
(145 nm, 151nm). Bandwidths
ofthe host
sensitization ofthe
formertwo
ionsare largerthan those of the
lattertwo
due totailings
inthe short
wavelength side.YPO
4and LuPO
4 havethe
tetrag-120 150 180 210
wavelength
(nm)
Fig. 15. Excitation spectra
of YPO4:R3+
(0.5〜2 mol%).
R
그
Gd (310nm emission), Sm (610 nm
emission),and
Eu(620 nm emission).
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甘
100 15() 200 250 300
exc.
wavelength (nm)
Fig. 16. Excitation spectra of
R'PQ,:
Eu자 (0.5~2m이%),
where R二
La, Gd,Lu
andY.1.0
>
은 응 °
um
항
nb
0.0
100 200 300
wavelength
(nm)Fig.
17.Excitation spectra of red emitting
phosphors,(a)
Y2O3 :
Eu,(b)YB03 :
Eu,(c) (Y,Gd)BO
3:
Eu,(d)
GdBO3
:Eu,
(e) SCBO3:
Eu,(f)L11BO3: Eu.
onal zircon
structure (D^),19 while LaPO4 and GdPO
4 havethe
monoclinicmonazite structure (C2h)-5
Thus the shift of the hostsensitization
bandsas
wellas the CT
bandscoould
be con
sidered to reflectthe
differencein
thecrystal
struc ture of
the hosts.Excitation
spectra of red-emitting phosphors
fordifferent rare earth ions
inLnBO3:
Eu3+
areshown
inFig. 17. As
theradius Ln
3+increases, the host
sensitization band movesto longer wavelengths.
The
same trendcould
be observedas
shownin Fig. 18
inthe
system ofLnBO3
: Tb3+
(Ln=Gd,Y, or
Lu)i.e., the order
ofthe
host sensitization bands are: Zexc(GdBC)3: Tb)
>Aexc(YBOs: Tb)>
lexc(LuBO3:
Tb).PHOSPHORS STABILITY
0.0 o
5 L
° A° S
。
lum u
TOnb
.箱』
100 200 300
wavelength (nm)
Fig. 18. Excitation
spectraof
green emitting phosphors, (a) Zn2SiO4: Mn,
(b)YBO3: Tb, (c) LuBO
3:Tb, (d)GdB6:
Tb,and (e)
ScBOs:
Tb.The deterioration of phosphors
iscaused
by theheat
treatment duringthe panel
fabrication process, i.e.,
burningoff the
binder fromthe
phosphorscreen,
sealingthe
glassfrit, and
exhaustingthe
panel. As아
iowd inTable 3, BaAli2O
19: Mnex
hibits
almost no loss in efficiency after
bakingin air (460 °C,
20min.),
while (Y,Gd)BO3: Euand BaMgAl14O
23: Eu
display adecreaseof 10 %in ef
ficiency.
The
temperaturedependence
of relative lu minance
ofsome phosphors are shown inFig. 19.
At
higher temperatures, (Y,Gd)BO
3: Eu
andBaAl^- O19: Mn give somewhat higher efficiences
andBaMgAl14O23: Eu exceeds
CaW04
and Zn2SiO4:
Mn.
PDP
phosphors areexposed
to the vuvof high energy and high
intensity. Thusthe
radiationsta
bility
of phosphors
shouldbe
consideredseriou이
y.The color
center and surface
defectsof the
phos
phorcaused by the radiation
will decrease lu minance efficiency. Practical results indicate that
*normalizedto the value
before baking.
Table
3. Phosphor deterioration upon
baking PhosphorBrightness
retention*(Y,Gd)BO
3:Eu 0.91
BaAhzOig :Mn 0.99
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SiO4
: Mn 0.96BaMgAl
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temperature
(°C)
Fig.
19.
Temperature dependenceof several
phosphors,(a)
(Y,Gd)B()3 :
Ei产,(b)
BaAluOm: Mn, (c)BaMgAli
4- O23:
Eu2+,(d)
Zn2SiO
4: Mn, (e)
CaWO4
,(f)
ZnS: Ag.
the E
u2+ in phosphors isunstable,
becauseit could be
oxidized to Eu3+under
the vuvradiation.The performance
of the
state-of-the-artcomm
ercial PDP
phosphors arestill
not good enough forthe practical
application.For the
widespread
ac ceptance of
thePDP
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