Review of the properties of Up-conversion phosphors for new emissive displays

IEEE/OSA Journal of Display Technology

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 68-78

  Rapaport, Alexandra ^b,c,d,e   Milliez, Janet ^a,b,f   Bass, Michael ^a,b,e   Cassanho, Arlete ^c,g,h   Jenssen, Hans ^c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UCF ^*

^d Society of Information Display   (United States)

^e OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA   (United States)

^f Society for Information Display   (United States)

^g AC Materials Inc

^h LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Displays; Fluorescence spectroscopy; Luminescence; Optical frequency up conversion (UC); Optical scattering; Rare earth (RE) compounds

Indexed keywords

DISPLAY WEIGHT; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; OPTICAL FREQUENCY UP-CONVERSION (UC); OPTICAL SCATTERING;

COLOR; DISPLAY DEVICES; INFRARED RADIATION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LUMINESCENCE;

PHOSPHORS;

EID: 33344454395     PISSN: 1551319X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JDT.2005.863781     Document Type: Article

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