Micromolding in capillaries for calcination-free fabrication of flexible inorganic phosphor films consisting of rare-earth-ion-doped nanoparticles

Langmuir

Volumn 29, Issue 35, 2013, Pages 11185-11191

  Watanabe, Satoshi ^a   Asanuma, Takeo ^a   Hyodo, Hiroshi ^a   Soga, Kohei ^a   Matsumoto, Mutsuyoshi ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCINATION; CAPILLARITY; DISPERSIONS; FABRICATION; INFRARED DEVICES; LUMINESCENCE; METAL IONS; METALLIC FILMS; MICROMACHINING; MOLDING; NANOPARTICLES; PHOSPHORS; PLASTIC SHEETS; RARE EARTHS; SILICONES;

DIRECT FABRICATIONS; DOPED NANOPARTICLES; GREEN UPCONVERSION; MICROMOLDING IN CAPILLARIES; MICROMOLDING IN CAPILLARIES TECHNIQUES; NEAR INFRARED LIGHT; NEAR-INFRARED FLUORESCENCE; UP-CONVERSION LUMINESCENCE;

SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

EID: 84883479803     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la401810x     Document Type: Article

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