Luminescent Materials and their Applications

Review from Ringgold Inc., ProtoView: This special topic volume in the Defect and Diffusion Forum series brings together nine papers on luminescent materials and their applications. Physicists, engineers, and others from India and Korea describe the history of luminescence; advances in luminescent nanomaterials for solid state lighting applications; applications of long afterglow phosphors/nanophosphors and the persistence mechanism involved and problems associated with their luminescence efficiency and persistence times; synthesis techniques for yttrium-based phosphors in terms of particle sizes, morphology, required temperatures, cost, and required time; theoretical and experimental aspects of elastico-mechanoluminescence, plastico-mechanoluminescence, and fracto-mechanoluminescence of colored alkali halide crystals; photoluminescence and thermoluminescence properties of europium and cerium activated in phosphors, as well as rare earth ions; electroluminescence in organically capped chalcogenide nanocrystals; and synthesis and electroluminescence of silver doped Zns/PVK nanocomposite.

Ringgold Subjects:

— Materials science
— Nanomaterials
— Nanoscience