(b) DESCRIPTION OF THE PRIOR ART
One of main application of phosphorescent substance is the demonstration field, wherein uses three primary colors, and promptly red, green, blue is realized full-color image.When fluorescent material (phosphorescent substance) is subjected to outside energy as passing through the electron radiation of acceleration, uv-radiation, electric field, generation three primary colors during the heating equal excitation.Usually, phosphorescent substance can be used for colored the demonstration preferably, because it has unique high luminous, and comprises trichromatic luminous purity of color height.The other reason that phosphorescent substance is suitable for this application is, they have the stability of height, and it can seldom change in thermal treatment that is used for display unit and chemical treating process optical property.
The common method that phosphor particles is coated on the plasma display panel is a stencil printing, and wherein the phosphorescent substance slurry with preparation is printed as thin phosphor layer in discharge cell.In the method, preferably show the image of high brightness with the phosphor layer that highly compresses.The shape of the phosphor layer that is coated with seriously is subjected to single phosphor particles shape, formula of size, and the condition effect of coating process.As everyone knows, the more aspheric phosphorescent substance of spheric phosphor particles produces higher filling efficient.Therefore, for company, it is feasible that the spheric phosphorescent substance is provided in business.
Phosphorescent substance is a stupalith, generally prepares to finish solid-state chemical reaction by heating raw materials mixed down at 600~1500 ℃ in intermittent type or continuous type furnace under controlled atmosphere.Usually added fusing assistant in the raw materials mixed, to promote solid-state chemical reaction.The size and dimension of the phosphor particles that obtains after the pyroreaction depends on heat protocol and fusing assistant, i.e. fusing assistant system is as the type of fusing assistant and the amount of fusing assistant.
BAM (the BaMgAl of Chu Shouing in the market
10O
17: Eu
2+) be a kind of phosphorescent substance of blueness, wherein average particulate diameter is 2~10 microns, each particulate degree of crystallinity approaches monocrystalline.Recently, because the excellent properties in high-resolution PDP is used, the particle as little and round that is subjected to the phosphorescent substance of good control for characteristic need increase.
In the round and little BAM blue phosphor particle of preparation, made a lot of effort so far, for example, sol-gel, hydrothermal solution, burning, and the precipitator method.
But the BAM blue phosphor of the available PDP of being used for does not have above-mentioned desirable particle characteristics in the market.Their majorities are irregularly shaped or flaky.Although they one of rounded, its single phosphor particles is by several slices shape granulometric composition.
Because flaky product, the method for preparing the BAM blue phosphor that Matsushita patents is not preferred for obtaining having the BAM of above-mentioned required particle characteristics, even because use circular aluminum oxide as alumina raw material, but they do not use any fusing assistant.
Utilize method for pyrolysis to prepare the report of BAM blue phosphor in addition.But this method generates flaky phosphor particles and non-circular phosphor particles.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED
In order to understand the present invention better, will explain following open.
In order to prepare spherical BAM blue phosphor particle, the inventor utilizes diverse ways to carry out some experiments.These methods comprise utilizes the fusing assistant of fluorine cpd as the control shape, and raw material and fusing assistant are mixed and made into mixture, and this mixture is introduced into airtight reactor, reaches this mixture of thermal treatment under the reducing atmosphere that comprises nitrogen and hydrogen.
In the present invention, described raw material is selected from Al
2O
3, Al (OH)
3, BaCO
3, MgO, and Eu
2O
3Multiple.The relative content of preferred each composition is counted Al by mole
2O
3Or Al (OH)
3: BaCO
3: MgO: Eu
2O
3=2: 0.34 or 0.38: 0.4: 0.02 or 0.06.BaCO
3With Eu
2O
3Relative mol ratio be 0.4.More preferably, relative ratio of mixture Al
2O
3Or Al (OH)
3: BaCO
3: MgO: Eu
2O
3=2: 0.36: 0.4: 0.04.With Al
2O
3Compare, more preferably Al (OH)
3
The fusing assistant of Shi Yonging is preferably fluorine cpd in the present invention.Preferred fluorine cpd are selected from Al
2O
3, Al (OH)
3, BaCO
3, MgO, Eu
2O
3, and composition thereof, i.e. AlF
3, BaF
2, MgF
2, EuF
3And composition thereof.The also preferred in the present invention consumption of controlling fusing assistant is so that obtain the suitably phosphor particles of size.Use for PDP, preferred average particle size particle size is 2~5 microns a phosphorescent substance.Therefore, the preferable amount of fusing assistant is 0.1~10% weight, by the total amount of the mixing raw material that comprises fusing assistant.If the amount of described fusing assistant is less than 0.1% weight, then the size of gained phosphor particles is too little, otherwise, if the amount of fusing assistant greater than 10% weight, then the size of gained phosphor particles is too big, can not be used for PDP.
The method of mixing raw material and fusing assistant generally is a ball milled, but is not limited in this, and other blending means comprises that hand mixes or any dried mixing method, as long as it can mix raw material all and can use.
In addition, fusing assistant can mix with raw material in solvent medium.The volatile alcohol of preferred heights is as solvent medium, more preferably ethanol.If use solvent to mix, then preferably after mixing step, remove this solvent fully before the heat treatment step.
The present invention includes the raw mix that will comprise fusing assistant is transferred in the airtight reactor and under the controlled atmosphere that comprises nitrogen and hydrogen it is heat-treated.
Preferably use alumina crucible as reactor.Reactor must be airtight with the fusing assistant in the maintenance reactor in heat treatment step, otherwise gained phosphor particles shape will be for flaky and aspheric.
Thermal treatment among the present invention should be carried out under the reducing atmosphere of being made up of nitrogen and hydrogen, wherein Eu
3+Be reduced into Eu
2+The ratio of mixture of preferred nitrogen and hydrogen is 85: 15~98: 2% weight.If hydrogen content is less than 2%, the degree of reduction reaction is too low, otherwise, if hydrogen content greater than 15%, the safety issue of process gas then occurs.More preferably, the ratio of mixture of described gas is 96: 4.
In heat treatment process of the present invention, heat treated temperature range is 1100~1700 ℃.When thermal treatment temp was lower than 1100 ℃, required complete solid state reaction did not take place, and perhaps the particle size of gained phosphorescent substance is too little; Otherwise when temperature of reaction was higher than 1700 ℃, although react completely, the particle size of gained phosphorescent substance was too big, can not be used for PDP.Most preferred heat-treatment temperature range is 1300~1500 ℃.
The invention provides the spherical BAM blue phosphor particulate method that can prepare the highly crystalline that approaches monocrystalline, wherein product be shaped as spheric, and average particle size particle size is 3.5~4 microns.Spherical BAM blue phosphor particle of the present invention be not only applicable to can the exhibit high brilliance image PDP, but also be applicable to luminescent lamp.
With reference to the following example the present invention is described in more detail.But the present invention is not limited to the following examples.
Embodiment 1
In ethanol, with the rotating speed of 250rpm, by the comprise 2 mole Als of ball mill with 99.7% weight
2O
3, 0.36 mole of BaCO
3, 0.4 mole of MgO, 0.04 mole of Eu
2O
3Raw mix and the AlF as fusing assistant of 0.3% weight
3Mixed fully 20 hours.Remove fully after the ethanol, dry mixture be transferred in the alumina crucible of 300cc, good seal, and under the controlled atmosphere of forming by 96% volume nitrogen and 4% volume hydrogen in 1500 ℃ of thermal treatments 4 hours.As shown in Figure 1, the gained phosphor particles obviously is a spheric.
Embodiment 2
In ethanol, with the rotating speed of 250rpm, by the comprise 4 mole Als of ball mill with 99.7% weight
2O
3, 0.36 mole of BaCO
3, 0.4 mole of MgO, 0.04 mole of Eu
2O
3Raw mix and the AlF as fusing assistant of 0.3% weight
3Mixed fully 20 hours.Steam after the ethanol, dry mixture be transferred in the alumina crucible of 300cc, closely the sealing, and under the controlled atmosphere of forming by 96% volume nitrogen and 4% volume hydrogen in 1500 ℃ of thermal treatments 4 hours.Fig. 2 (amplifying 3000 times) and Fig. 3 (amplifying 7000 times) show the shape of gained phosphor particles.As can be seen from Figures 2 and 3, every kind of phosphor particles is spherical and uniform.
Reference example 1
In ethanol, with the rotating speed of 250rpm, by the comprise 2 mole Als of ball mill with 99.9% weight
2O
3, 0.36 mole of BaCO
3, 0.4 mole of MgO, 0.04 mole of Eu
2O
3Raw mix and the AlF as fusing assistant of 0.1% weight
3Mixed fully 20 hours.Remove after the ethanol, the gained dry mixture be transferred in the alumina crucible of 300cc, closely sealing, and under the reducing atmosphere of forming by 96% volume nitrogen and 4% volume hydrogen in 1500 ℃ of thermal treatments 4 hours.As shown in Figure 4, the shape of this phosphor particles obviously is not a spheric, but elongated.
Reference example 2
In ethanol, with the rotating speed of 250rpm, by the comprise 4 mole Als of ball mill with 99.7% weight
2O
3, 0.36 mole of BaCO
3, 0.4 mole of MgO, 0.04 mole of Eu
2O
3Raw material and the AlF as fusing assistant of 0.3% weight
3Mix 20 hours preparation mixtures fully.Steam to remove after the ethanol, this mixture be transferred in the alumina crucible of 300cc, closely sealing, and under the reducing atmosphere of forming by 96% volume nitrogen and 4% volume hydrogen in 1500 ℃ of thermal treatments 4 hours.As shown in Figure 5, the shape great majority of gained phosphor particles are not spheric.
Experiment 1
Phosphor particles filling efficient contrast experiment
This experiment is to utilize the filling efficient of the spherical phosphor particles that surveying instrument obtains by comparing embodiment 2 to carry out with the filling efficient that is purchased the sheet phosphor particles.As shown in Figure 7, the filling efficient of spheric phosphor particles is obviously high by 17% than the filling efficient of the sheet phosphor particles that is purchased.We can infer that thus therefore the filling efficiency ratio that forms phosphor layer by spheroidal particle on the PDP unit, utilizes spherical phosphor particles can make very bright PDP screen by the phosphor layer filling efficient height that aspherical particle forms.
Although with reference to embodiment preferred the present invention is described in detail, but those skilled in the art is to be understood that, under the situation of the spirit and scope of the present invention that do not break away from the appended claims to be set forth, can make multiple modification and replacement to the present invention.