Luminescent glass-ceramics containing CaAl2Si2O8: Eu2+ and Y20Si12O48N4: Eu3+ crystallites# 5 10 15 20 Hamed Karimi, Yuting Zhang, Shuo Cui, Ronghua Ma, Gu Li, Qiannan Wang, Jiajia Zhao, Xvsheng Qiao, Xianping Fan** (State Key Laboratory of Silicon Materials, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China) Abstract: Novel oxynitride glass-ceramics with tremendously improved quantum yield and adjustable color coordinates were prepared with the conventional melt-and-quench method followed by subsequent annealing heat treatment. X-ray diffraction (XRD) and Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) images revealed CaAl2Si2O8 and Y20N4Si12O48 crystalline phases were homogenously precipitated in the glass-ceramics. The optical absorption and photoluminescence (PL) spectra measurements showed that a large portion of Eu3+ were converted into Eu2+ which substituted Ca2+ in CaAl2Si2O8 crystals during the heat treatment. Eu2+ and Eu3+ were found to be preferentially incorporated with CaAl2Si2O8 and Y20N4Si12O48 crystalline phases, respectively. The total emission intensity including the emission of both Eu2+ and Eu3+ ions were enhanced with increasing the annealing temperature, owing to the conversion of Eu3+ to Eu2+ and the lower nonradiative rate of Eu3+ in the crystalline phase pared to the glass matrix. The quantum yie