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. | Elements | Weight % |
Atomic % |
| (a) | O(K) | 37.27 | 81.77 | P(K) | 7.94 | 8.99 | Eu(L) | 0.58 | 0.13 | Bi(M) | 54.21 | 9.11 |
| (b) | O(K) | 37.49 | 81.04 | P(K) | 8.67 | 9.68 | Ce(L) | 4.48 | 1.11 | Bi(M) | 49.36 | 8.17 |
| (c) | O(K) | 28.16 | 73.80 | P(K) | 8.78 | 12.32 | Ce(L) | 3.38 | 1.05 | Eu(L) | 1.58 | 0.74 | Bi(M) | 58.10 | 12.09 |
| (d) | O(K) | 41.81 | 84.48 | P(K) | 7.01 | 7.32 | Ce(L) | 3.43 | 0.79 | Eu(L) | 0.36 | 0.08 | Bi(M) | 47.39 | 7.33 |
| (e) | O(K) | 34.28 | 79.39 | P(K) | 8.27 | 9.89 | Ce(L) | 1.74 | 0.46 | Eu(L) | 5.76 | 1.41 | Bi(M) | 49.95 | 8.86 |
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