Cerium-doped lutetium aluminum garnet optically transparent ceramics fabricated by a sol-gel combustion process

Journal of Materials Research

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1519-1525

  Liu, Xue Jian ^a,b   Li, Hui Li ^a   Xie, Rong Jun ^b   Hirosaki, Naoto ^b   Xu, Xin ^b   Huang, Li Ping ^a  

^a SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF CERAMICS   (China)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; ANNEALING; BAND STRUCTURE; CALCINATION; COMBUSTION; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; LUTETIUM COMPOUNDS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OPACITY; PHOSPHORS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; SOL-GELS;

CERIUM-DOPED LUTETIUM ALUMINUM GARNET; RADIOLUMINESCENSCE; TRANSPARENT CERAMICS;

CERAMIC MATERIALS;

EID: 33745988942     PISSN: 08842914     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1557/jmr.2006.0183     Document Type: Article

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