Research Article

Excitation Induced Tunable Emission in Ce3+/Eu3+ Codoped BiPO4 Nanophosphors

Table 1

Elemental composition data obtained from EDAX profiles of BiPO4 doped with (a) 1.0 mol% Eu3+, (b) 5.0 mol% Ce3+, (c) 1.0 Eu3+/5.0 Ce3+ (mol%), (d) 0.5 Eu3+/2.5 Ce3+ (mol%), and (e) 5.0 Eu3+/1.0 Ce3+ (mol%).

S.N.ElementsWeight % Atomic %

(a)O(K)37.2781.77
P(K)7.948.99
Eu(L)0.580.13
Bi(M)54.219.11

(b)O(K)37.4981.04
P(K)8.679.68
Ce(L)4.481.11
Bi(M)49.368.17

(c)O(K)28.1673.80
P(K)8.7812.32
Ce(L)3.381.05
Eu(L)1.580.74
Bi(M)58.1012.09

(d)O(K)41.8184.48
P(K)7.017.32
Ce(L)3.430.79
Eu(L)0.360.08
Bi(M)47.397.33

(e)O(K)34.2879.39
P(K)8.279.89
Ce(L)1.740.46
Eu(L)5.761.41
Bi(M)49.958.86