釔鋁石榴石攙鈰(yttrium aluminum garnet, YAG:Ce)螢光粉係屬藍光LED激發之白光LED用螢光粉,由於具有良好的熱穩定性及光轉換效率,是目前製作白光LED最常用的材料。 本研究係以α相氧化鋁、θ相氧化鋁及水鋁礦三種固態氧化物以及硝酸鋁作為鋁源,與硝酸釔及硝酸鈰等起始原料合成YAG:Ce螢光粉,藉由化學沉澱法使用正滴定、逆滴定及快速加入來達到低溫合成的效果。以化學沉澱法使用硝酸鋁為鋁源,採用正滴定及逆滴定皆可於900℃/2h得到純YAG相。而在固態鋁源方面,以逆滴定可得到最佳的混合均勻性,在以α相氧化鋁為鋁源製備前驅物經1500℃/24h之二階段煆燒可得纯YAG相;θ相氧化鋁於1400℃/24h便可得到純YAG相,而經PL檢測其最強發射峰分別為524及527 nm,介於黃綠光範圍。
Ce3+-doped yttrium aluminum garnet (YAG:Ce) phosphor was synthesized by three different precipitation processes, in which aluminum nitrate, alumina (α and θ phase) or boehmite was used as the aluminum sorce. Pure YAG:Ce phosphor can be obtained from aluminum nitrate by normal strike and reverse strike precipitation method and calcined at 900℃ for 2h, which is shorter than that of fast titration method calcined at 900℃ for 4h. When alumina (α and θ phase) or boehmite was used as the aluminum sorce. YAG phosphor can synthesized using θ-phase alumina by reverse strike precipitation and calcined at 1300℃/16h-1400/24h, which was 100℃ lower than that of used α-phase alumina. The spectra shows that YAG phosphors emitted at 524 and 527 nm, which was in the wavelength range of yellow to green light.