Journal of Inorganic Materials, Volume. 36, Issue 2, 217(2021)

Fabrication and Characterizations of Yb:YAG Transparent Ceramics Using Alcohol-water Co-precipitation Method

Xinyou HUANG1... Yumin LIU1,2, Yang LIU3, Xiaoying LI2,4, Yagang FENG2,4, Xiaopu CHEN2,4, Penghui CHEN1,2, Xin LIU2,4, Tengfei XIE2,4, and Jiang LI24,* |Show fewer author(s)
Author Affiliations
  • 11. School of Material Science and Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, China
  • 22. Key Laboratory of Transparent Opto-functional Inorganic Materials, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201899, China
  • 33. Science and Technology on Solid-State Laser Laboratory, North China Research Institute of Electro-Optics, Beijing 100015, China
  • 44. Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronic Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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    Xinyou HUANG, Yumin LIU, Yang LIU, Xiaoying LI, Yagang FENG, Xiaopu CHEN, Penghui CHEN, Xin LIU, Tengfei XIE, Jiang LI. Fabrication and Characterizations of Yb:YAG Transparent Ceramics Using Alcohol-water Co-precipitation Method[J]. Journal of Inorganic Materials, 2021, 36(2): 217

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    Category: RESEARCH LETTERS

    Received: Apr. 29, 2020

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Nov. 24, 2021

    The Author Email: LI Jiang (lijiang@mail.sic.ac.cn)

    DOI:10.15541/jim20200231

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