Synthesis and Luminescent Properties of New Double Ln2Zr(WO4)5 (Ln = Tb, Dy) Tungstates

Abstract

New polycrystalline powder samples of double Ln2Zr(WO4)5 (Ln = Dy, Tb) tungstates were synthesized using high-temperature solid-phase and sol-gel methods. The conditions of the sol-gel synthesis of tungstates were optimized. The obtained phases were characterized by the X-ray powder diffraction on the basis of the crystallographic data of similar Ln–Zr molybdates. It is found that Ln2Zr(WO4)5 (Ln = Dy, Tb) double tungstates crystallize in the orthorhombic crystal system, space group Cmc21 (Z = 4). The intensive luminescence in the green spectral region for Tb2Zr(WO4)5 and yellow spectral region for Dy2Zr(WO4)5 was shown.