1. Significant enhancement of luminescence properties of YAG:Ce ceramics by differential grain sizes control.
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Sun, Yishan, Zhao, Huanyu, Qin, Zixuan, Zhang, Mu, Li, Xiaodong, and Sun, Xudong
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YTTRIUM aluminum garnet , *LUMINESCENCE , *GRAIN size , *LIGHT propagation , *ALUMINUM oxide , *LIGHT absorption , *SOLID-state lasers - Abstract
High-brightness laser lighting requires high luminous efficacy and high thermal performance of luminescent materials. In this study, we designed and fabricated single-phase YAG:Ce ceramics with differential grain sizes by combining the coarse commercial phosphor and fine powder of precusor. The large YAG:Ce grains mainly contribute to excellent luminescence properties. The small YAG:Ce grains not only change the direction of light propagation to improve the luminous efficiency but also effectively increase the Ce3+ content to improve the absorption of blue light, which significantly further enhance the luminescence properties compared with the second phase in the YAG:Ce-base composite ceramics. The luminescent ceramic with 40 wt% large grains sintered under 1550 °C has the highest luminous efficacy of 398.5 lm/W. Compared with the Al 2 O 3 –YAG:Ce composite ceramic, the single-phase YAG:Ce ceramic effectively increased the absorption of blue light to enhance the luminescence properties without the adverse effects caused by the transverse scattering of light in the Al 2 O 3 phase. After encapsulating the ceramic onto a radiator, a high luminous flux of 7697.6 lm under the blue-laser excitation of 3.0 A (54.6 W) was obtained. These indicated its broad application prospects in high-power solid-state laser lighting. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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