Efficient and tuneable photoluminescent boehmite hybrid nanoplates lacking metal activator centres for single-phase white LEDs

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Bai, Xue ^a,e   Caputo, Gianvito ^b   Hao, Zhendong ^c   Freitas, Vânia T ^a   Zhang, Jiahua ^c   Longo, Ricardo L ^d   Malta, Oscar L ^d   Ferreira, Rute A S ^a   Pinna, Nicola ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c CHANGCHUN INSTITUTE OF OPTICS   (China)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^e JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM OXIDE; BENZOIC ACID; LIGAND; NANOPARTICLE; NANOPLATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

COLOR; CORRELATION; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; LUMINESCENCE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SYNERGISM; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ARTICLE; ENERGY TRANSFER; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LIGHT EMITTING DIODE; OPTICAL ROTATION; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; QUANTUM YIELD; SURFACE PROPERTY; TEMPERATURE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; WHITE LIGHT; WHITE LIGHT EMITTING DIODE; X RAY POWDER DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84923363606     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6702     Document Type: Article

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