“…[6][7][8][9] These variations make them potentially applicable in various elds such as in erasable optical memory media, sensors, photooptical switches, rewritable copy papers, and optical bers and communications. [10][11][12][13][14][15] However, most of the reported PC materials are organic materials and inherit some natural drawbacks such as low fatigue resistance, environmentally harmful synthesis processes, and low thermal and chemical stability, which will restrict their commercial applications. In contrast, the inorganic PC materials have some better chemical stability, we synthesized and studied the phosphors Ba 5 (PO 4 ) 3 Cl:Eu 2+ , Sr 3 YNa(PO 4 ) 3 F:Eu 2+ , Sr 3 GdLi(PO 4 ) 3 F:Eu 2+ , and Sr 3 GdNa(PO 4 ) 3 F:Eu 2+ ,Ln 3+ possessing photochromism with the abovementioned structure.…”