“…Fig. 1f shows the fluorescence lifetime decay curves ( λ ex = 470 nm, λ em = 632 nm) of [N(CH 3 ) 4 ] 3 MoO 3 F 3 : x Mn 4+ ( x = 2%, 4%, 6%, 8% and 10%) phosphors, which can be fitted with a single exponential function (eqn (5)): 27,43 I ( t ) = I 0 exp (− t / τ ) + A where I 0 and I ( t ) denote the initial fluorescence intensity and emission intensity at moment t of the as-prepared samples, τ is the fluorescence decay time, and A represents a constant. When the concentration of Mn 4+ increased from 2% to 10%, the fluorescence lifetimes of the samples were 3.90 ms, 3.76 ms, 3.49 ms, 2.89 ms and 2.88 ms, respectively.…”