Issue 17, 2012

Discovery of novel phosphors for use in light emitting diodes using heuristics optimization-assisted combinatorial chemistry

Abstract

Non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm (NSGA) and particle swarm optimization (PSO), the most well-known population-based heuristics optimization techniques, were used along with high-throughput synthesis and a characterization technique to discover a new alkali–alkaline earth-phosphate phosphor in a multi-compositional search space that consisted of 10 oxides: Li2O, K2O, Na2O, SrO, CaO, BaO, MgO, ZnO, P2O5, and Eu2O3. Because the number of possible combinatorial candidates in this search space was infinite, a simple high-throughput process would not have accomplished an effective screening. We employed NSGA for a preliminary screening in terms of luminescence intensities at excitations of 254 and 390 nm. Following the NSGA implementation, a fine-tuning process was implemented using PSO in a reduced composition space. In contrast to model-based simulations, we used high-throughput experimentation (HTE) for the experimental evaluation of objective functions in NSGA and PSO executions. As a result, we pinpointed a promising green-light-emitting phosphor, K0.2188Sr0.0045Ba0.1079Ca0.3647P0.2977Oδ:Eu0.0065, exhibiting a monoclinic structure with unit cell parameters, a = 13.2229(1), b = 9.40612(1), c = 12.9628(1), β = 106.765, in the P21/a space group, which has potential for use in white light emitting diodes (LEDs).

Graphical abstract: Discovery of novel phosphors for use in light emitting diodes using heuristics optimization-assisted combinatorial chemistry

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
15 Jan 2012
Accepted
15 Feb 2012
First published
21 Feb 2012

J. Mater. Chem., 2012,22, 8505-8511

Discovery of novel phosphors for use in light emitting diodes using heuristics optimization-assisted combinatorial chemistry

K. H. Son, S. P. Singh and K. Sohn, J. Mater. Chem., 2012, 22, 8505 DOI: 10.1039/C2JM30280B

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