A novel spray co-precipitation method to prepare nanocrystalline Y2O3 powders for transparent ceramics

Achieving fabrication of highly transparent Y2O3 ceramics via air pre‐sintering by deionization treatment of suspension

“…Y 2 O 3 transparent ceramics have been intensively investigated during the past four decades for a wide variety of applications, such as solid-state lasers, scintillators, ceramic phosphors, and transparent windows, owing to their broad range of transparency (0.2-8 μm), high melting point (2430°C), high thermal conductivity, low phonon energy, and easy doping of rare earth activator ions. Previously, ample research efforts have been devoted to the fabrication of highly transparent Y 2 O 3 ceramics by elaborating various aspects of ceramic processing procedures, namely powder synthesis, [1][2][3][4][5][6][7] consolidation, [8][9][10][11][12] and sintering. [13][14][15][16][17] Although progressive improvement in ceramic properties was achieved in the past four decades, and the scientific issues relating to the processing-property relationship have been well addressed by many researchers, there are still a few obstacles hindering the current wider application of this material.…”

Fabrication and characterization of transparent sesquioxide laser ceramics

“…In order to improve the precursor quality, a spray technology has been proposed recently. 87,88 In those studies, particle morphology has been improved. However, powders synthesized by the spraying method and the normal method were not well compared under the same experimental condition.…”