New yellow Ba0.93Eu0.07Al2O4 phosphor for warm-white light-emitting diodes through single-emitting-center conversion

Light: Science and Applications

Volumn 2, Issue JANUARY, 2013, Pages

  Li, Xufan ^a,b   Budai, John D ^c   Liu, Feng ^a,b   Howe, Jane Y ^c   Zhang, Jiahua ^d   Wang, Xiao Jun ^e   Gu, Zhanjun ^f   Sun, Chengjun ^g   Meltzer, Richard S ^b   Pan, Zhengwei ^a,b  

^a University of Georgia   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d CHANGCHUN INSTITUTE OF OPTICS   (China)

^e GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f INSTITUTE OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS   (China)

^g ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Luminescence; Single phosphor conversion; Warm white light emitting diode; Yellow phosphor

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881248877     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20477538     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/lsa.2013.6     Document Type: Article

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