Vanadium garnet materials

摘要

Vanadium garnet material and a method for their preparation. The vanadium garnet material has a trivalent vanadium cation and a composition that falls within a specific polygon shaped area in a ternary composition diagram of V2O3, CaO and SiO2. The polygon shaped area represents compositions of liquids with which said vanadium garnet is in equilibrium on the liquidus surface and from which the vanadium garnet phase is crystallized. A typical vanadium garnet material has the formula Ca3V2Si3O12. The vanadium garnet materials may be used in laser applications.