I am looking for safe arrangement (in furnace) that will be helpful to carry out the reduction. like combination of gas and the value/percentage. If possibly a link to would be great.
For preparation most of the luminescent oxide materials as YAG etc doped with Eu2+ all researches generally use a mixture N2/H2 at volume ratios of 95/5 or 90/10. See for example follow link http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2014/dt/c3dt53603c#!divAbstract