Red-emitting silicon quantum dot phosphors in warm white LEDs with excellent color rendering

Optics Express

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Tu, Chang Ching ^a   Hoo, Ji H ^a,b   Böhringer, Karl F ^b   Lin, Lih Y ^b   Cao, Guozhong ^b  

^a LumiSands Inc ^*  (United States)

^b University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; NANOCRYSTALS; PASSIVATION; PHOSPHORS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; RARE EARTH ELEMENTS; RARE EARTHS; SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SILICON; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; LIGHT EMISSION;

CDSE QUANTUM DOTS; COLOUR RENDERING; ENVIRONMENT-FRIENDLY ALTERNATIVES; LOW-COSTS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE QUANTUM YIELDS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE WAVELENGTH; RED-EMITTING; SILICON QUANTUM DOTS; SURFACE PASSIVATION; WHITE LED'S; COLOR RENDERING; COLOR RENDERING INDEX;

II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; PHOSPHORS;

EID: 84896360093     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.00A276     Document Type: Article

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