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Journal of Advanced Ceramics 2023, 12(4): 681-694 https://doi.org/10.26599/JAC.2023.9220712
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Defect elimination to enhance photoluminescence and optical transparency of Pr-doped ceramics for self-calibrated temperature feedback windows

Show Author's Information Kailei Lua,b,  Yucheng Yea,  Wenhan Hana,b,  Gang Chengd,  Xinghua Zhue,  Jianqi Qia,b,c( ),  Tiecheng Lua,b,c( )
College of Physics, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, China
Key Laboratory of High Energy Density Physics of Ministry of Education, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, China
Key Laboratory of Radiation Physics and Technology, Ministry of Education, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, China
School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Sichuan University of Arts and Science, Dazhou 635000, China
School of Intelligent Manufacturing, Sichuan University of Arts and Science, Dazhou 635000, China
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transparent ceramics, luminescence enhancement, temperature sensing, Pr3+, vacuum annealing
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Lu K, Ye Y, Han W, et al. Defect elimination to enhance photoluminescence and optical transparency of Pr-doped ceramics for self-calibrated temperature feedback windows. Journal of Advanced Ceramics, 2023, 12(4): 681-694. https://doi.org/10.26599/JAC.2023.9220712
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Pr-doped metal oxide polycrystalline transparent ceramics are highly desirable for photothermal window systems served in extreme environments; however, obtaining efficient photoluminescence (PL) together with high transparency in these ceramics is still posing serious challenges, which undoubtedly limits their applications. Here, Pr-doped Y2Zr2O7 (YZO) transparent ceramics, as an illustrative example, are prepared by a solid-state reaction and vacuum sintering method. Owing to the elimination of defect clusters [ PrY4+−O2−−PrY4+] and [ PrY4+−e′] without the introduction of impurities and additional defects, the fabricated YZO:Pr ceramics exhibit high transparency (74%) and efficient PL (39-fold enhanced) after air annealing plus vacuum re-annealing treatment. Moreover, upon 295/450 nm excitation, the emission bands (blue, green, red, and dark red) from YZO:Pr ceramics present different temperature-dependent properties due to the thermal-quenching channel generated by the intervalence charge transfer (IVCT) state between Pr3+ and Zr4+ ions. Furthermore, a self-calibrated temperature feedback window with the same fluorescence intensity ratio (FIR) model (I613/I503, where I represents the intensity) under different excitation light sources (295 and 450 nm) is designed. The developed photothermal window operated in a wide temperature range (303–663 K) shows relatively high sensitivities (absolute sensitivity (Sa) and relative sensitivity (Sr) reach 0.008 K−1 at 663 K and 0.47% K−1 at 363 K, respectively), high repeatability (> 98%), and low temperature uncertainty (δT < 3.2 K). This work presents a paradigm for achieving enhanced PL along with elevated transparency of lanthanide (Ln)-doped ceramics through vacuum re-annealing treatment engineering and demonstrates their promising potential for photothermal window systems.


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Defect elimination to enhance photoluminescence and optical transparency of Pr-doped ceramics for self-calibrated temperature feedback windows

Show Author's information Kailei Lua,b, Yucheng Yea, Wenhan Hana,b, Gang Chengd, Xinghua Zhue, Jianqi Qia,b,c( ), Tiecheng Lua,b,c( )
College of Physics, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, China
Key Laboratory of High Energy Density Physics of Ministry of Education, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, China
Key Laboratory of Radiation Physics and Technology, Ministry of Education, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, China
School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Sichuan University of Arts and Science, Dazhou 635000, China
School of Intelligent Manufacturing, Sichuan University of Arts and Science, Dazhou 635000, China

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Pr-doped metal oxide polycrystalline transparent ceramics are highly desirable for photothermal window systems served in extreme environments; however, obtaining efficient photoluminescence (PL) together with high transparency in these ceramics is still posing serious challenges, which undoubtedly limits their applications. Here, Pr-doped Y2Zr2O7 (YZO) transparent ceramics, as an illustrative example, are prepared by a solid-state reaction and vacuum sintering method. Owing to the elimination of defect clusters [ PrY4+−O2−−PrY4+] and [ PrY4+−e′] without the introduction of impurities and additional defects, the fabricated YZO:Pr ceramics exhibit high transparency (74%) and efficient PL (39-fold enhanced) after air annealing plus vacuum re-annealing treatment. Moreover, upon 295/450 nm excitation, the emission bands (blue, green, red, and dark red) from YZO:Pr ceramics present different temperature-dependent properties due to the thermal-quenching channel generated by the intervalence charge transfer (IVCT) state between Pr3+ and Zr4+ ions. Furthermore, a self-calibrated temperature feedback window with the same fluorescence intensity ratio (FIR) model (I613/I503, where I represents the intensity) under different excitation light sources (295 and 450 nm) is designed. The developed photothermal window operated in a wide temperature range (303–663 K) shows relatively high sensitivities (absolute sensitivity (Sa) and relative sensitivity (Sr) reach 0.008 K−1 at 663 K and 0.47% K−1 at 363 K, respectively), high repeatability (> 98%), and low temperature uncertainty (δT < 3.2 K). This work presents a paradigm for achieving enhanced PL along with elevated transparency of lanthanide (Ln)-doped ceramics through vacuum re-annealing treatment engineering and demonstrates their promising potential for photothermal window systems.

Keywords: transparent ceramics, luminescence enhancement, temperature sensing, Pr3+, vacuum annealing

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Received: 11 November 2022
Revised: 04 December 2022
Accepted: 25 December 2022
Published: 24 March 2023
Issue date: April 2023

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This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (U21A20441), the Nuclear Power Development Programme, the Key Research and Development Program of Sichuan Province (2021YFG0375), the Key Science and Technology Project of Sichuan Province (2020ZDZX0012), the Science and Technology Planning Project of Dazhou (21DWHZ0005), and the Cooperation Project of Sichuan University and Dazhou (2021CDDZ-02).

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