efficiency, compact size, environmental friendliness as well as their wide applications in modern indoor illumination, displays devices flashlights, auto bulb, etc. [1] Amongst, one of the challenges lies in the development of the novel, highly efficient, and stable red phosphors with adjustable emission wavelengths for different requirements. In solid-state lighting, the current solutions for fabricating highquality pc-WLEDs (color-rendering index, R a > 80; color-correlated temperature, CCT < 4500 K) mainly rely on red-emitting nitride phosphors (e.g.,: CaAlSiN 3 :Eu 2+ , Sr[LiAl 3 N 4 ]:Eu 2+ , etc.) or fluoride phosphors represented by K 2 SiF 6 :Mn 4+ . [2] However, harsh conditions of high temperature, high pressure, and expensive reagents are required for the synthesis of nitride phosphors, as well as the unavoidably use of highly toxic and corrosive anhydrous HF for fluoride phosphors. Moreover, Eu 3+ -doped phosphors suffer from weak absorption in the blue region and low luminous efficiency for the pc-WLEDs applications. [3] In comparison, it will be the optimum alternative if one can find suitable Eu 2+ -doped oxide-based red phosphors, which can be pumped by blue light and also possess high quantum efficiency, thermal stable and tunable emission. Therefore, it is critical to develop new design principles
Discovering new Eu2+ -doped red-emitting phosphors in oxide-based materials is a challenge for white light-emitting diode (WLED) applications. Herein, a highly efficient high-frequency induction heating method is employed to rapidly prepare the red-emitting Sr 2 Sc 0.5 Ga 1.5 O 5 :Eu 2+ phosphors peaking at 614 nm and exhibiting a high photoluminescence quantum yield of 78.4% under the excitation of 440 nm. The structural and spectral analyses suggest that Eu 2+ ions tend to enter the [Sc1/Ga1O 6 ] and [Ga2O 6 ] polyhedrons with small coordination numbers, leading to the broadband red emission originated from large crystal field splitting of Eu 2+ 5d level. The chemical substitution of Ba in the Sr site enhances the thermal stability and helps to the photoluminescence tuning from 614 to 728 nm in SrBaSc 0.5 Ga 1.5 O 5 :Eu 2+ . The WLED device fabricated by blending the red Sr 1.7 Ba 0.3 Sc 0.5 Ga 1.5 O 5 :Eu 2+ and yellow Y 3 (Al, Ga) 5 O 12 :Ce 3+ phosphors shows a high color-rendering index (R a = 91.1), and low color-correlated temperature (CCT = 4750 K). This study aims to provide a new synthesis method and design principle for guiding the development of Eu 2+ -doped oxide-based red phosphors with low preparation cost; moreover, the photoluminescence tuning strategy via cation substitutions is essential to achieve tunable emission, even the near-infrared luminescence.