Enriching red emission of Y3Al5O12: Ce3+ by codoping Pr3+ and Cr3+ for improving color rendering of white LEDs

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 24, 2010, Pages 25177-25182

  Wang, Lei ^a,b   Zhang, Xia ^a   Hao, Zhendong ^a   Luo, Yongshi ^a   Wang, Xiao Jun ^c   Zhang, Jiahua ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CERIUM; CHROMIUM; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; ENERGY TRANSFER; LIGHT EMISSION; PHOSPHORS; SOLID STATE REACTIONS;

BLUE LED CHIPS; CO-DOPING; COLOR RENDERING; COLOR RENDERING INDEX; EMISSION SPECTRUMS; FLUORESCENCE DECAYS; RED EMISSIONS; TRANSFER RATES; WHITE LED;

CERIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 78649692679     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.025177     Document Type: Article

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