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Fabrication and properties of non-stoichiometric Tb2(Hf1–xTbx)2O7–x magneto-optical ceramics

Show Author's Information Lixuan ZHANGa,b,  Xiaoying LIa,b,  Dianjun HUa,b,  Ziyu LIUa,b,  Tengfei XIEa,  Lexiang WUa,  Zhaoxiang YANGa,  Jiang LIa,b( )
Transparent Ceramics Research Center, 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
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Verdet constant, reactive sintering, magneto-optical ceramics, Tb2(Hf1−xTbx)2O7−x ceramics
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ZHANG L, LI X, HU D, et al. Fabrication and properties of non-stoichiometric Tb2(Hf1–xTbx)2O7–x magneto-optical ceramics. Journal of Advanced Ceramics, 2022, 11(5): 784-793. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40145-022-0571-9
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Non-stoichiometric Tb2(Hf1−xTbx)2O7−x (x = −0.07–0.45) magneto-optical ceramics were fabricated by solid-state reactive sintering in vacuum combined with hot isostatic pressing (HIP) post-treatment without any sintering aids. The phase composition, densification process, microstructure, optical transmittance, and Verdet constant of Tb2(Hf1−xTbx)2O7−x ceramics were investigated. The in-line transmittance of (Tb0.93Hf0.07)2Hf2O7.07 ceramics with a thickness of 2.0 mm reaches 74.6% at 1064 nm. The Verdet constant of Tb2(Hf1−xTbx)2O7−x ceramics is −153.4, −155.8, and −181.2 rad/(T·m) at the wavelength of 633 nm when x = −0.07, 0, and 0.1, respectively. The Verdet constant increases with the increase of Tb content, and these values are higher than that of the commercial Tb3Ga5O12 crystal, indicating that non-stoichiometric Tb2(Hf1−xTbx)2O7−x ceramics have a great potential for the application in Faraday isolators.


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Fabrication and properties of non-stoichiometric Tb2(Hf1–xTbx)2O7–x magneto-optical ceramics

Show Author's information Lixuan ZHANGa,b, Xiaoying LIa,b, Dianjun HUa,b, Ziyu LIUa,b, Tengfei XIEa, Lexiang WUa, Zhaoxiang YANGa, Jiang LIa,b( )
Transparent Ceramics Research Center, 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

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Non-stoichiometric Tb2(Hf1−xTbx)2O7−x (x = −0.07–0.45) magneto-optical ceramics were fabricated by solid-state reactive sintering in vacuum combined with hot isostatic pressing (HIP) post-treatment without any sintering aids. The phase composition, densification process, microstructure, optical transmittance, and Verdet constant of Tb2(Hf1−xTbx)2O7−x ceramics were investigated. The in-line transmittance of (Tb0.93Hf0.07)2Hf2O7.07 ceramics with a thickness of 2.0 mm reaches 74.6% at 1064 nm. The Verdet constant of Tb2(Hf1−xTbx)2O7−x ceramics is −153.4, −155.8, and −181.2 rad/(T·m) at the wavelength of 633 nm when x = −0.07, 0, and 0.1, respectively. The Verdet constant increases with the increase of Tb content, and these values are higher than that of the commercial Tb3Ga5O12 crystal, indicating that non-stoichiometric Tb2(Hf1−xTbx)2O7−x ceramics have a great potential for the application in Faraday isolators.

Keywords: Verdet constant, reactive sintering, magneto-optical ceramics, Tb2(Hf1−xTbx)2O7−x ceramics

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Received: 02 November 2021
Revised: 09 January 2022
Accepted: 11 January 2022
Published: 02 April 2022
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This work was supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (Grant No. 2021YFE0104800), 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).

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