White-light/tunable emissions in single-phased BaLa₂Si₃O₁₀:Eu³⁺, Bi³⁺ phosphor for the simultaneous applications in white light-emitting diodes and luminous cement

In this work, we report the single-phased BaLa₂Si₃O₁₀:Eu³⁺, Bi³⁺ phosphor with white-light/tunable emissions under UV excitations. We find the emissions of Bi³⁺-doped BaLa₂Si₃O₁₀ samples are dependent on the excitation spectral wavelength, where exciting by the wavelength from 240 to 410 nm range can lead to the tunable Bi³⁺ emissions owing to the intensity change of three emission bands (i.e., 367 nm, 423 nm, and 516 nm). After co-doping the Eu³⁺ ions into Bi³⁺-doped BaLa₂Si₃O₁₀, the energy transfer from Bi³⁺ to Eu³⁺ ions dominated by a dipole–quadrupole (d–q) interaction mechanism is proved. Typically, by exciting with 365 nm and varying the Eu³⁺ content, the tunable emissions from blue, white to red are observable in the BaLa₂Si₃O₁₀:Eu³⁺, Bi³⁺. By coating the white BaLa₂Si₃O₁₀:Eu³⁺, Bi³⁺ sample with a commercial 365-nm UV LED chip or mixing it with the cement, we not only achieve the white-light LEDs device with the desirable color rendering index (CRI) of 95, excellent luminescent efficiency of 80 lm/W, and good excellent color temperature (CT) of 4215 K at the CIE chromaticity of (0.338, 0.357), but also achieve the luminous cement.