Green (G) and red (R) light-emitting materials, such
as quantum
dots, perovskite nanocrystals, and inorganic phosphor powders, owing
to their excellent optical characteristics, have attracted researchers’
attention as color-conversion materials for lighting and display applications.
However, these materials contain environmentally harmful elements,
such as Pb or Cd, and/or they are synthesized using environmentally
harmful synthetic approaches and conditions, involving the use of
organic solvents, high pressure, high temperature, harsh atmosphere,
and long reaction time. In this study, as an eco-friendly synthetic
approach to synthesize lead-free Cs
3
MnBr
5
G
powder phosphor, we suggest an evaporative crystallization process
of aqueous reactant solution. This synthetic process does not use
toxic elements or solvents and the crystallization process utilizes
only low reaction temperature and short reaction time under air atmosphere
conditions. We successfully synthesized Cs
3
MnBr
5
green powder phosphor, with excellent optical properties, by evaporative
heating of a 200 nm syringe-filtered solution at 150 °C for 2
h. The synthesized Cs
3
MnBr
5
phosphors have a
photoluminescence quantum yield of 66.3%, a peak wavelength of 520
nm, a narrow bandwidth of 38 nm, and a photoluminescence decay time
of 0.34 ms under blue excitation. This phosphor is expected to be
a useful alternative G-emitting material that can compete with commercial
green quantum dots, perovskite nanocrystals, or inorganic phosphors.