Luminescence distribution of Yb-doped Ca-α-SiAlON phosphors

Journal of Materials Research

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1701-1705

  Dierre, B ^a,b   Yuan, X L ^a   Hirosaki, N ^a   Kimura, T ^a   Xie, R J ^a   Sekiguchi, Takashi ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; LIGHT SOURCES; LUMINESCENCE; PHOSPHORS; YTTERBIUM;

LUMINESCENCE PROPERTIES;

LIGHT EMISSION;

EID: 48949117352     PISSN: 08842914     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1557/jmr.2008.0208     Document Type: Article

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