Influence of fuels on the morphology of undoped Y3Al5O12 and photoluminescence of Y3Al5O12:Eu prepared by a combustion method |
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Authors: | Kai Guo Xue-Mei Zhang Hao-Hong Chen Xiangxin Guo |
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Affiliation: | a Key Laboratory of Transparent Opto-Functional Inorganic Materials of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, 1295 Ding Xi Road, Shanghai 200050, PR China b Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19A Yu Quan Road, Beijing 100039, PR China |
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Abstract: | Undoped and Eu-doped yttrium aluminum garnet nano-powders were prepared by a facile combustion method with citric acid/ethylene diamine tetraacetic acid (EDTA) as fuels and nitrates as oxidizers. The precursors and powders calcined at 1030 °C were investigated using thermogravimetric (TG), differential thermal analysis (DTA), X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscope (SEM), and Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) surface area measurements. It was found that the powders could be indexed with a garnet structure. The grains were in shape of hemispherical with sizes between 60 nm and 100 nm. With decreasing the citric acid/EDTA ratio, the crystallite size decreased steadily and the specific surface area increased. Investigations of photoluminescence (PL) revealed that as-synthesized YAG:Eu3+ phosphor samples exhibited an orange emission band with a main peak at 591 nm under the excitation of 394 nm. As citric acid amounts increased, the quality of crystallinity became higher and the luminescent properties were monotonously enhanced. |
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Keywords: | A. Oxides B. Chemical synthesis D. Luminescence |
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