White light-emitting diode lamps using oxynitride and nitride phosphor materials

IEICE Transactions on Electronics

Volumn E88-C, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 2057-2063

  Sakuma, Ken ^a,c,d,e,f   Hirosaki, Naoto ^b   Kimura, Naoki ^a   Ohashi, Masakazu ^a   Xie, Rong Jun ^b,d,e,g   Yamamoto, Yoshinobu ^b   Suehiro, Takayuki ^b,e,g   Asano, Kenichiro ^a   Tanaka, Daiichiro ^a,h  

^a FUJIKURA LTD   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA   (United States)

^d JAPAN SOCIETY OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (Japan)

^e Ceramic Society of Japan   (Japan)

^f Phosphor Research Society   (Japan)

^g AMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY   (United States)

^h Inst Image Info Television E   (Japan)

Author keywords

Illumination; Light emitting diode; Nitride; Phosphor

Indexed keywords

LIGHT; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHOSPHORS; PHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS;

WHITE-LIGHT EMITTING DIODE LAMPS;

LIGHT EMITTING DIODES;

EID: 29144503135     PISSN: 09168524     EISSN: 17451353     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ietele/e88-c.11.2057     Document Type: Article

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