Pressureless glass crystallization of transparent yttrium aluminum garnet-based nanoceramics

Transparent YAG crystals are ubiquitous in phosphors, scintillators and lasers, but are complex and costly to make. Here, the authors use a one-step pressureless crystallization of bulk glass to make a transparent biphasic YAG nanoceramic that can be doped for optical applications.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Xiaoguang Ma, Xiaoyu Li, Jianqiang Li, Cécile Genevois, Bingqian Ma, Auriane Etienne, Chunlei Wan, Emmanuel Véron, Zhijian Peng, Mathieu Allix
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2018-03-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03467-7