Highly efficient and narrow-band red phosphors with blue or near-UV excitation are strongly required to improve the color rendering property and luminous efficacy of the existing white LEDs. With this aim in view, the Eu3+-doped YSiO2N oxynitride phosphor was developed, whose charge transfer excitation band was located at the near-UV region (~320–340 nm) due to covalent N 2p orbitals. To investigate the effect of the mixed-anion coordination around Eu3+ ions, the relationship between the luminescence properties and the local environments was investigated with site-selective and time-resolved spectroscopy. The Eu3+ luminescence properties in Y3+ sites that differ in terms of centrosymmetric were characterized, and the results suggest that thermal distortion with a lack of the inversion center induces the electronic dipole transition, resulting in a shorter luminescence lifetime.
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