Measurement and numerical studies of optical properties of YAG:Ce phosphor for white light-emitting diode packaging

Applied Optics

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 247-257

  Liu, Zongyuan ^a,b   Liu, Sheng ^a,b   Wang, Kai ^a,b   Luo, Xiaobing ^a,b  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; LIGHT EMISSION; OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHOSPHORS; RAY TRACING;

ABSORPTION AND SCATTERINGS; ABSORPTION CO-EFFICIENT; INTEGRATING SPHERES; MONTE-CARLO RAY TRACING; OPTICAL CHARACTERIZATION; RAY TRACING SIMULATION; SCATTERING CO-EFFICIENT; WHITE LIGHT EMITTING DIODES;

LIGHT EMITTING DIODES;

EID: 75449104463     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.49.000247     Document Type: Article

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