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Color Tuning of Oxide Phosphors

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In white-LED application, the development of novel phosphors with high luminescence efficiency and high-emission color purity is extremely important because the performance of white LEDs is directly affected by the luminescence properties of the phosphors. In this chapter, therefore, we review some Eu2+- and Ce3+-activated phosphor materials and discuss the luminescence properties of these phosphors from the viewpoint of the relationship between the emission-band position and the crystallographic environment including the local site symmetry of the dopant site in the host lattice. We also propose a material-design concept to develop long wavelength-emission phosphors.

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    Sun Woog Kim, Kenji Toda & Takuya Hasegawa

  2. Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Niigata University, 8050 Ikarashi 2-nocho, Niigata, 950-2181, Japan

    Kazuyoshi Uematsu & Mineo Sato

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Kim, S.W., Toda, K., Hasegawa, T., Uematsu, K., Sato, M. (2017). Color Tuning of Oxide Phosphors. In: Liu, RS. (eds) Phosphors, Up Conversion Nano Particles, Quantum Dots and Their Applications. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-52771-9_7

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