Persistent luminescence in Eu2+-doped compounds: A review

Materials

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 2536-2566

  Van den Eeckhout, Koen ^a   Smet, Philippe F ^a   Poelman, Dirk ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Europium; Persistent luminescence; Thermoluminescence

Indexed keywords

CO-DOPED; LONG LASTING; LUMINESCENT MATERIAL; PERSISTENT LUMINESCENCE; TRAP LEVELS;

DOPING (ADDITIVES); EUROPIUM; LUMINESCENCE; THERMOLUMINESCENCE; ZINC SULFIDE;

EUROPIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 78650060871     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961944     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ma3042536     Document Type: Review

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