High-brightness white-light source based on up-conversion phosphors

IEEE/OSA Journal of Display Technology

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 307-311

  Milliez, Janet ^a,b   Rapaport, Alexandra ^b   Bass, Michael ^a,b   Cassanho, Arlete ^c   Jenssen, Hans P ^c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^c AC Materials   (United States)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; OPERATING MODES; OPTICAL FREQUENCY UP-CONVERSION (UC); OPTICAL SCATTERING;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION; FLUORESCENCE; LUMINESCENCE; PHOSPHORS; RARE EARTH COMPOUNDS; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

LIGHT SOURCES;

EID: 33748314674     PISSN: 1551319X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JDT.2006.879183     Document Type: Article

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