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Rare Earth, Rare Earth Luminescence, Luminescent Rare Earth Compounds, and Photofunctional Rare Earth Hybrid Materials

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Photofunctional Rare Earth Hybrid Materials

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This chapter mainly focuses on the fundamental principles of rare earth luminescence, which are important for the investigation of the photofunctional rare earth hybrid materials. It introduces the rare earth elements and their physiochemical properties, the atomic spectral term and energy level transition of rare earth ions associated with their electronic configuration, and the luminescence and spectroscopy of rare earth ions, rare earth inorganic compounds for phosphors, rare earth coordination compounds for molecular luminescence, and photofunctional rare earth hybrid materials combining the characteristics of both phosphor and molecular luminescence. This chapter provides a basis to understand the contents of the subsequent chapters.

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Yan, B. (2017). Rare Earth, Rare Earth Luminescence, Luminescent Rare Earth Compounds, and Photofunctional Rare Earth Hybrid Materials. In: Photofunctional Rare Earth Hybrid Materials. Springer Series in Materials Science, vol 251. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2957-8_1

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