Abstract
Glass ceramic has been regarded as an alternative to traditional bulk materials such as single crystal and transparent ceramic. The nucleation/growth behavior of glass ceramic via crystallization is an important topic but is seldom studied so far. In the present work, a series of La3+-based oxyfluoride aluminosilicate glasses are designed to understand their nanocrystallization processes upon heating. Impressively, controllable LaF3, α-NaLaF4 and β-NaLaF4 phase-competitive crystallization in glasses is achieved and structural/spectroscopic characterizations confirm the key role of Al/Si ratio to determine the release of Na+ ions from glass network to participate in crystallization and phase transformation. Furthermore, the developed glass ceramics are evidenced to be ideal hosts for lanthanide dopants (such as Eu3+ and Yb3+/Er3+), which can effectively incorporate into the precipitated fluoride crystal lattices by substituting La3+ ions. As a consequence, incoherent LED-excitable upconverting devices are constructed to demonstrate their promising application as emitting media in display.
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