Ultra-high efficiency green-emitting LuAG: Ce phosphor-in-ceramic applied for high-power laser lighting

Phosphor-in-ceramic (PiC) has garnered considerable attention in high-power white laser lighting owing to its advantages, such as high efficiency and good thermal stability. In this study, a transparent hydroxyapatite (HA) ceramic was successfully prepared via spark-plasma sintering (SPS) under relatively mild conditions. A series of ultra-high efficiency green-emitting PiCs were obtained by pure HA ceramics with 1–12% Lu3Al5O12: Ce (LuAG) phosphors. Owing to the rapid sintering of SPS and the stability of HA ceramics, HA ceramic matrix has high transparency, and does not damage the crystal structure of the LuAG phosphor. When excited by a blue laser, the HA-LuAG PiC exhibited an excellent luminous efficacy of 300.48 lm·W−1. The fluorescence saturation threshold of the laser power was approximately 7.90 W. These results demonstrate that HA-LuAG PiCs have great potential for applications as efficient green-emitting phosphor conversion materials for high-power laser lighting.