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Structural and luminescence properties of yellow phosphors prepared by a modified sol-gel method

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In our paper, yttrium aluminum garnet doped with cerium (YAG:Ce) and terbium aluminum garnet doped with cerium (TAG:Ce) yellow garnet phosphors were prepared by a modified sol-gel method, using oxide, nitride as raw materials and acetylacetone, dimethyl sulfoxide, cetrimonium bromide in the hydrolysis and condensation step. The thermal treatment of the phosphors was performed at 1100 °C in order to transform it from amorphous to crystalline garnet phase. Structural, morphological, and luminescence properties were studied by Fourier transform infrared spectrometry, x-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, and fluorescence spectroscopy. The results show that the modified sol-gel method provides a feasible approach to produce YAG:Ce and TAG:Ce yellow phosphors for the optoelectronic applications.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by a grant of the Ministry of National Education and Scientific Research, RDI Program for Space Technology and Advanced Research—STAR, project number 639/2017. This work was also supported by UEFISCDI in the Partnership Framework: PN-III-P2-2.1-PTE-2016-0145 (Project No. 46PTE/2016), PN-II-PT-PCCA-2013-4-0366 (Project No. 208/2014) and by the National Basic Funding Programme TEHNOSPEC (Project No. PN1632/2016). The authors would like to acknowledge to researchers: Mihai Danila for technical support in samples characterization and Carmen Iorga, Tamara Dobre, Elena Nistor, and Marioara Paznicu for cooperation.

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    Vasilica Ţucureanu, Alina Matei, Andrei Avram, Marian Cãtalin Popescu, Iuliana Mihalache, Marioara Avram, Cãtalin Valentin Mãrculescu & Bianca Cãtãlina Ţîncu

  2. Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics Department, Transilvania University of Brasov, 29 Eroilor Blvd, Brasov, 500036, Romania

    Marius Volmer

  3. Department of Materials Science, Transilvania University of Brasov, 29 Eroilor Blvd, Brasov, 500036, Romania

    Vasilica Ţucureanu & Daniel Munteanu

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Ţucureanu, V., Matei, A., Avram, A. et al. Structural and luminescence properties of yellow phosphors prepared by a modified sol-gel method. MRS Communications 7, 721–727 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1557/mrc.2017.84

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