Provided is an optical film (a composite tungsten oxide film containing cesium, tungsten, and oxygen), a sputtering target, and a method of producing a film by which film formation conditions can be easily obtained. An optical film of the present invention has transmissivity in a visible wavelength band, has absorbance in a near-infrared wavelength band, and has radio wave transparency, and is characterized in that the optical film comprises cesium, tungsten, and oxygen, in which a refractive index n and an extinction coefficient k of the optical film at each of 300 nm and wavelengths [400 nm, 600 nm, . . . , 2400 nm] specified at 200 nm intervals in a wavelength region from 400 nm to 2400 nm are set within a range between n-max and n-min made by graphing the maximum value and the minimum value of the refractive index in a wavelength dispersion graph of optical constants shown in FIG. 1 and within a range between k-max and k-min made by graphing the maximum value and the minimum value of the extinction coefficient in the above wavelength dispersion graph of optical constants.

The invention discloses a method for preparing nanometer alkali metal tungsten bronze by hydrolysis of a coordination compound of cation at a lower temperature, and the application of nanometer alkali metal tungsten bronze coating. The method adopts one-step low-temperature heating hydrolysis to synthesize nano alkali metal tungsten bronze, and the preparation process requires no special equipment, no high temperature and high pressure, mild process conditions, low energy consumption, short cycle, high productions, high yield and low cost. The synthesized products have good crystallinity, which are Cs.sub.XWO.sub.3, Rb.sub.XWO.sub.3, K.sub.XWO.sub.3, Na.sub.XWO.sub.3, in which X=0.20.33, the synthesized short rod-like alkali metal tungsten bronze particle length is 10150 nm, the diameter is 1050 nm, and the synthesized isometric alkali metal tungsten bronze particle size is less than 100 nm in all direction. The above powders have excellent near-infrared shielding properties and visible light transmission properties, good UV shielding performance and certain middle and far infrared shielding performance. The nanometer alkali metal tungsten bronze coating prepared by the invention is an simple and controllable preparation process, and has high near infrared shielding performance and excellent ultraviolet shielding performance.

A luminophore may have the general formula A.sub.2EZ.sub.zX.sub.x:RE, where: A is selected from the group of the monovalent elements; E is selected from the group of the tetravalent, pentavalent, or hexavalent elements; Z is selected from the group of the divalent elements; X is selected from the group of the monovalent elements; RE is selected from activator elements; 2+e=2z+x, with the charge number e of the element E; and x+z=5 and z>0. A process is also disclosed that is directed to producing the luminophore and a corresponding radiation-emitting component.

The present disclosure broadly relates to a high temperature chemical process for the synthesis of cesium tungstate in the solid state and the preparation of aqueous solutions or deuterated solutions of cesium tungstate. More specifically, but not exclusively, the present disclosure relates to a high temperature chemical process in which tungsten oxide compounds such as tungsten oxides, or natural or synthetic concentrates such as wolframite or scheelite, tungsten industrial by-products or there mixture thereof, are mixed with cesium compounds such as cesium carbonate, or cesium sulfate, or cesium hydroxide or their mixtures thereof and the mixture is roasted in air or oxygen at high temperature inside a kiln. After cooling, the solid sintered mass containing cesium tungstate is leached or dissolved with water or heavy water for producing dense aqueous solutions or deuterated solutions of cesium tungstate.

Electromagnetic wave absorbing particles including cesium tungsten oxide represented by a general formula Cs.sub.xW.sub.1-yO.sub.3-z (0.2x0.4, 0<y0.4, and 0<z0.46) and having an orthorhombic crystal structure or a hexagonal crystal structure are provided.

In one aspect, the present invention provides a solid-state electrolyte material. The solid-state electrolyte material comprises a composition of Formula (XX), (XX-A), (XX-B), (XX-C), (I), (Ia), and/or (Ib), as described herein. Another aspect provides a method of making a green body. A further aspect provides a method of making a sintered solid-state electrolyte material.