GdAG:Ce fluorescent ceramic formed by aqueous tape casting and isostatic pressing process for WLED applications.

The fluorescent ceramic GdAG:Ce was formed by aqueous tape casting-isostatic pressing process and synthesized by high temperature solid state method. To investigate the effect of introduction of Gd3+ on the crystal structure, the photoluminescence (PL) properties, decay lifetime and the white light-emitting diodes (WLED) applications, non-Gd3+ analogue sample YAG:Ce was prepared as well. In contrast, fluorescent ceramic GdAG:Ce exhibited a relatively smaller XRD peaks, much stronger PL emission intensity and shorter lifetime than that of YAG:Ce. These findings could be beneficial to the improvement of the WLED performance. Moreover, fluorescent ceramic GdAG:Ce was made up of practical with garnet structure, which possessed good thermal stability. As a consequence, an increase of color rendering index (Ra) to 62.3 and decrease of correlated temperature (CCT) to 3208 K was achieved by the WLED device based on fluorescent ceramic GdAG:Ce. The impressive results provided a basis for the fluorescent ceramic used in the field of WLED with high Ra and low CCT. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]