Pre-evaluation method for the spectroscopic properties of YAG bulk materials by sol-gel synthetic YAG powder

Ceramics International

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 2393-2399

  Fujioka, Kana ^a   Saiki, Taku ^b   Motokoshi, Shinji ^b   Fujimoto, Yasushi ^a   Fujita, Hisanori ^a   Nakatsuka, Masahiro ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE FOR LASER TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

A. Powder: chemical preparation; A. Sol gel processes; C. Optical properties

Indexed keywords

A. POWDER: CHEMICAL PREPARATION; A. SOL-GEL PROCESSES; BULK MATERIALS; C. OPTICAL PROPERTIES; CRYSTALLINITY; LOW TEMPERATURES; ND: YAG; PRE-EVALUATION; SOL-GEL METHODS; SPECTROSCOPIC PROPERTY; SYNTHETIC METHODS; YAG; YAG CRYSTAL; YAG POWDER;

CRYSTAL IMPURITIES; GELATION; GELS; LUMINESCENCE; MELTING POINT; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; POWDERS; SINGLE CRYSTALS; SOL-GELS; SOLS;

SOL-GEL PROCESS;

EID: 67349208961     PISSN: 02728842     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ceramint.2009.02.010     Document Type: Article

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