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Fabrication and performance evaluation of novel transparent ceramics RE:Tb3Ga5O12 (RE = Pr, Tm, Dy) toward magneto-optical application

Show Author's Information Xiaoying LIa,b,  Ilya L. SNETKOVc,  Aleksey YAKOVLEVc,  Qiang LIUd,  Xin LIUa,b,  Ziyu LIUa,b,  Penghui CHENa,b,  Danyang ZHUa,b,  Lexiang WUa,  Zhaoxiang YANGa,  Tengfei XIEa,  Haohong CHENa,  Oleg PALASHOVc,  Jiang LIa,b( )
Key Laboratory of Transparent Opto-functional Inorganic Materials, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201899, China
Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhny Novgorod 603950, Russia
School of Material Science and Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, China
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magneto-optical material, rare earth (RE):terbium gallium garnet (TGG) ceramics, Verdet constant, thermo-optical properties
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LI X, SNETKOV IL, YAKOVLEV A, et al. Fabrication and performance evaluation of novel transparent ceramics RE:Tb3Ga5O12 (RE = Pr, Tm, Dy) toward magneto-optical application. Journal of Advanced Ceramics, 2021, 10(2): 271-278. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40145-020-0437-y
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Transparent ceramics are at the heart of modern magneto-optical materials providing promising opportunities for Faraday isolators. 1.0 at% RE:Tb3Ga5O12 (rare earth (RE) = Pr, Tm, Dy) transparent ceramics were successfully prepared by air sintering and sequential HIP technique using the coprecipitated powders as the raw material. All the powders have shown to be a pure cubic terbium gallium garnet (TGG) phase and exhibit good dispersion. Additionally, a change could not be observed in particle shape with the different doped ions. After the two-step sintering, all the obtained ceramics have good optical quality, and the in-line transmittances at 1070 nm are higher than 80%. Moreover, no secondary phase can be detected from the microstructures. However, the pores which remain entrapped in the ceramics can be noted. The Verdet constant of ceramic samples is optimized by RE doping, and the Verdet constant at 632.8 nm is about -143 rad·T-1·m-1, which is about 5% higher than that of TGG ceramics. Finally, the thermo-optical properties of 1.0 at% RE:TGG transparent ceramics are compared. The annealed TGG ceramic showed the best thermo-optical properties, and the thermally induced depolarization of 1.0 at% Ce:TGG and 1.0 at% Tm:TGG was inferior to that of annealed TGG ceramic.


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Fabrication and performance evaluation of novel transparent ceramics RE:Tb3Ga5O12 (RE = Pr, Tm, Dy) toward magneto-optical application

Show Author's information Xiaoying LIa,b, Ilya L. SNETKOVc, Aleksey YAKOVLEVc, Qiang LIUd, Xin LIUa,b, Ziyu LIUa,b, Penghui CHENa,b, Danyang ZHUa,b, Lexiang WUa, Zhaoxiang YANGa, Tengfei XIEa, Haohong CHENa, Oleg PALASHOVc, Jiang LIa,b( )
Key Laboratory of Transparent Opto-functional Inorganic Materials, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201899, China
Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhny Novgorod 603950, Russia
School of Material Science and Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, China

Abstract

Transparent ceramics are at the heart of modern magneto-optical materials providing promising opportunities for Faraday isolators. 1.0 at% RE:Tb3Ga5O12 (rare earth (RE) = Pr, Tm, Dy) transparent ceramics were successfully prepared by air sintering and sequential HIP technique using the coprecipitated powders as the raw material. All the powders have shown to be a pure cubic terbium gallium garnet (TGG) phase and exhibit good dispersion. Additionally, a change could not be observed in particle shape with the different doped ions. After the two-step sintering, all the obtained ceramics have good optical quality, and the in-line transmittances at 1070 nm are higher than 80%. Moreover, no secondary phase can be detected from the microstructures. However, the pores which remain entrapped in the ceramics can be noted. The Verdet constant of ceramic samples is optimized by RE doping, and the Verdet constant at 632.8 nm is about -143 rad·T-1·m-1, which is about 5% higher than that of TGG ceramics. Finally, the thermo-optical properties of 1.0 at% RE:TGG transparent ceramics are compared. The annealed TGG ceramic showed the best thermo-optical properties, and the thermally induced depolarization of 1.0 at% Ce:TGG and 1.0 at% Tm:TGG was inferior to that of annealed TGG ceramic.

Keywords: magneto-optical material, rare earth (RE):terbium gallium garnet (TGG) ceramics, Verdet constant, thermo-optical properties

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Received: 14 September 2020
Revised: 28 October 2020
Accepted: 09 November 2020
Published: 24 February 2021
Issue date: April 2021

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This work was supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (Grant No. 2017YFB0310500), the NSFC-RFBR Cooperative Research Project (Grant No. 61911530135), and the Key Research Project of the Frontier Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (No. QYZDB-SSW-JSC022). This work was supported partially by the Ministry of High Education and Science of the Russian Federation and the State Task executed in the Institute of Applied Physics RAS (Project No. 0035-2019-0015).

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