“…The main reason of emphasizing on borate is their variety of structure types, transparency to a wide range of wavelengths, high laser damage tolerance, and high optical quality (Bajaj and Omanwar 2013). Combustion synthesis is a good low-cost, one-step, and lowtemperature method for the synthesis of borates, phosphates, and silicates (Khan et al 2015;Bhatkar et al 2002;Thakare et al 2007;Bhatkar et al 2007;Sonekar et al 2007;Sonekar et al 2009). Some orthoborates, LiMgBO 3 :Dy 3+ (Bajaj and Omanwar 2014), NaCaBO3 (Wu et al 2005) (Kumar et al 2013), NaCaBO 3 : Ce 3+ , Mn 2+ (Sun et al 2013), NaCaBO 3 :Ce 3+ , Tb 3+ , Mn 2+ (Zhang and Gong 2014), NaCaBO 3 :Sm 3+ (Bedyal et al 2014), etc., have been synthesized with different methods to explore their crystal structure and luminescent properties for probable applications in medical as well as industrial fields.…”