Local vibration around rare earth ions in alkaline earth fluorosilicate transparent glass and glass ceramics using Eu3+ probe

By heat treating the alkaline earth fluorosilicate glass, transparent glass ceramics containing alkaline earth fluoride nanocrystallites were prepared. The luminescence spectra and phonon sideband associated with the Eu3+:5D2 → 7F0 in glass and glass ceramics were investigated to analyze the local environment around Eu3+. Judd-Ofelt parameters were also calculated from emission spectra, which indicated that the Eu3+ ions entered the precipitated CaF2, SrF2, and BaF2 nanocrystallites. Heat treating could not pledge Eu3+ ions to coordinate with F− in the precipitated MgF2 nanocrystallites, owing to the smaller radius of Mg2+ than that of Eu3+.