The invention discloses a
barium fluoride up-conversion transparent
ceramic and a preparation method thereof, and belongs to the technical field of optically functional materials. The existing
alumina up-conversion transparent
ceramic has low up-conversion luminous efficiency and is prepared difficultly. The
barium fluoride up-conversion transparent
ceramic utilizes
barium fluoride transparent ceramic as a matrix and comprises: by mole, 60 to 89% of
barium fluoride, 10 to 25% of
ytterbium fluoride, and 1 to 15% of one or more of fluorides of
erbium,
holmium,
neodymium,
thulium and
promethium. The preparation method comprises the following steps of blending
raw material nanometer
powder according to the mole percentage, wherein
barium fluoride powder has particle sizes of 20 to 80nm and
rare earth fluoride
powder has particle sizes of 10 to 90nm, pressing the blended
raw material nanometer powder into a biscuit, pre-
sintering the biscuit at a temperature of 500 to 800 DEG C for 0.5 to 5 hours, carrying out
vacuum sintering of the pre-sintered biscuit under the conditions of pressure of 50 to 500MPa, a vacuum degree of 10<-2> to 10<-3>Pa, a heating rate of 1 to 20 DEG C / min, a
sintering temperature of 600 to 1200 DEG C and
sintering time of 0.5 to 5 hours, and cooling to a
room temperature at a rate of 1 to 20 DEG C / min to obtain the
barium fluoride up-conversion transparent ceramic.