Synthesis of SrF2:Yb:Er ceramic precursor powder by co-precipitation from aqueous solution with different fluorinating media: NaF, KF and NH4F.

Autor: Ermakova, Yu. A., Pominova, D. V., Voronov, V. V., Yapryntsev, A. D., Ivanov, V. K., Tabachkova, N. Yu., Fedorov, P. P., Kuznetsov, S. V.
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Zdroj: Dalton Transactions: An International Journal of Inorganic Chemistry; 4/14/2022, Vol. 51 Issue 14, p5448-5456, 9p
Abstrakt: The major challenge in optical ceramic technology is the quality of the starting precursor powder for pressing, which is a key element in the optical ceramic industry. One express and helpful technique for the estimation of powder quality is the estimation of the quantum yield of up-conversion luminescence; therefore precursor powders must exhibit high values of up-conversion luminescence efficiency. Single-phase solid solutions based on strontium fluoride doped with ytterbium and erbium were synthesised by co-precipitation from aqueous solutions using sodium fluoride, potassium fluoride and ammonium fluoride as fluorinating agents. The asymmetry of X-ray diffraction maxima indicated the presence of two populations of particles with the same chemical composition. The processes of extended flat particles' growth from smaller particles with a spherical morphology were revealed with transmission electron microscopy and X-ray diffraction. It was shown that when sodium fluoride and potassium fluoride were used they entered the crystal structure in an amount of 3–4 mol% and 1 mol%, respectively. The introduction of sodium and potassium led to an improvement in the sintering ability of particles and a significant increase in the particle size in ceramics by a factor of 5 and 2, respectively, in comparison with the use of ammonium fluoride. The quantum yield values of up-conversion luminescence at the level of tenths of a percent at a low pump power density of 0.1 W cm−2 were very high, which suggests that these synthetic techniques can be considered to be promising for the preparation of precursors of laser ceramics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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