Narrow-band red-emitting Sr[LiAl3 N4]:Eu2+ as a next-generation LED-phosphor material

Nature Materials

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 891-896

  Pust, Philipp ^a   Weiler, Volker ^b   Hecht, Cora ^b   Tücks, Andreas ^b   Wochnik, Angela S ^a   Henß, Ann Kathrin ^a   Wiechert, Detlef ^b   Scheu, Christina ^a   Schmidt, Peter J ^b   Schnick, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT EMISSION; PHOSPHORS;

COLOUR-RENDERING INDICES; LUMINESCENCE PROPERTIES; LUMINOUS EFFICACY; PHOSPHOR-CONVERTED LEDS; RED EMISSIONS; RED EMITTING PHOSPHOR; THERMAL QUENCHING; WHITE LIGHT EMITTING DIODES;

LIGHT EMITTING DIODES;

EID: 84906779827     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat4012     Document Type: Article

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