Enhanced optical properties of yttrium aluminum garnet with the yttrium vanadate impurity phase

Abstract

Yttrium aluminum garnet doped with europium with an additional impurity phase of yttrium vanadate doped europium has been prepared in different ways: synthesized by a sol-gel route and mechanically mixed in a mortar. The obtained samples were characterized by X-ray diffraction analysis, and scanning electron microscopy. Photoluminescence spectra were recorded to understand the role of the impurity phase in the garnet's optical properties. The impurity phase showed a significant contribution to the optical properties of Y3Al5O12:1%Eu. --//-- Monika Skruodiene, Ruta Juodvalkyte, Meldra Kemere, Rimantas Ramanauskas, Anatolijs Sarakovskis, Ramunas Skaudzius, Enhanced optical properties of yttrium aluminum garnet with the yttrium vanadate impurity phase, Heliyon, Volume 8, Issue 11, 2022, e11386, ISSN 2405-8440, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e11386. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844022026743). Published under the CC BY-NC-ND licence.