Terbium-doped nanocrystalline yttrium aluminium garnet phases, Y3Al5O12:Tb3+ (YAG:Tb3+), were obtained by using rare-earth nitrates as the starting materials, together with citric acid and ethylene glycol according to the Pechini method. Thermogravimetric and differential thermal analysis were used to study the thermal decomposition of the precursor gels and the formation of nanocrystalline YAG:Tb3+. An increase in garnet nanocrystallite size from 20 to 40 nm with annealing temperature increasing from 800 to 1160 °C was evidenced with X-ray powder diffraction measurements. The intensity as well as the decay times of both 5D3 and 5D4 emissions of Y3Al5O12:Tb3+ were not found to depend on annealing and were thus independent of crystal size.
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