Advances in solid state white lighting technologies witness the explosive development of
phosphor materials (down-conversion luminescent materials). A large amount of evidence …

As a novel class of inorganic phosphors, oxynitride and nitride luminescent materials have
received considerable attention because of their potential applications in solid-state …

The production of white light based on a near-UV LED chip requires incorporating three
inorganic phosphors that emit in the blue, green, and red portions of the visible spectrum …

(Oxy) nitride materials, consisting mainly of transition metal and ionic‐covalent (oxy) nitrides,
show a vast number of interesting physical and chemical properties due to their substantial …

The history of inorganic luminescent materials (phosphors) dates back to the time when the
first phosphor, barium sulfide, was produced in the nineteenth century. Since then …

Ce3+ and/or Eu2+ activated Ca8La2 (PO4) 6O2 (CLPA) oxyapatite blue phosphors have
been prepared via a Pechini-type sol–gel process. X-ray diffraction (XRD) …

There are various routes of luminescence quenching such as multi-phonon relaxation from
excited states to lower energy states, energy migration to killer sites, and radiation less …

Eu2+-as well as Ce3+-doped Ba [Li2 (Al2Si2) N6] and its related Mg-substituted compounds
Ba [(Mg2–x Li x)(Al4–x Si x) N6]: Eu2+ (x= 0–2) with x= 1.6, 1.8 have been synthesized by …

Eu3+-activated layered perovskite ionic conductor KGdTiO4 red emitting phosphors to be
used for ultraviolet based light emitting diodes (LEDs) and field emission displays (FEDs) …

The origin of photoluminescence (PL) in silicon nanocrystals (SiNCs) remains a subject of
considerable debate. Size-dependent PL that supports the quantum confinement model has …