
Phosphor Handbook
Process, Properties and Applications
- 1st Edition - January 15, 2023
- Editors: Vijay B. Pawade, Ritesh L. Kohale, Sanjay J. Dhoble, Hendrik C. Swart
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 0 5 3 9 - 8
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 0 6 5 0 - 0
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Request a sales quotePhosphor Handbook: Process, Properties and Applications provides a comprehensive overview of the latest advances in research on the synthesis, characterization and applications of organic and inorganic phosphors. There is detailed information presented on the characterization of the relevant phosphor groups, such as up-conversion and down-conversion phosphors, inorganic LED phosphors, organic LED phosphors and thermoluminescence and dosimetric phosphors using various physical and chemical advances. Finally, the advances in phosphor technologies are discussed, including current barriers to their use in commercial applications and emerging opportunities.
This book is suitable for researchers and practitioners in academia and those working in R&D in industry in the disciplines of materials science and engineering, materials chemistry, materials physics, photonics science and technology, nanotechnology and physical chemistry.
- Introduces fundamentals of phosphor materials, including their mechanisms, properties and technologies
- Reviews the most important categories of phosphor materials (inorganic and organic) for use in light-emitting diodes and dosimetry
- Discusses advances in physical and chemical methods to synthesize and characterize phosphor materials
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Section One. Fundamentals of phosphors
- 1. Brief history and scope of phosphor
- 1.1. Historical bag round
- 1.2. Mechanism
- 1.3. Phosphor
- 1.4. Recent development
- 1.5. Conclusion and future scope
- 2. Mechanism, properties and applications of phosphors
- 2.1. Introduction
- 2.2. Basic mechanism of luminescence in phosphors materials
- 2.3. Luminescent properties of phosphors
- 2.4. Application of phosphors materials
- 2.5. Conclusion
- 3. Lanthanide-doped phosphor: an overview
- 3.1. Introduction
- 3.2. Lanthanide doped phosphors: overview, optical properties, and applications
- 3.3. Conclusions
- 4. Conversion phosphors: an overview
- 4.1. Introduction
- 4.2. Upconversion phosphors
- 4.3. Down-shifting phosphors
- 4.4. Downconversion phosphors
- 4.5. Summary
- 5. Recent progress in phosphor technology
- 5.1. Overview
- 5.2. Conclusions
- Section Two. Inorganic LED phosphors
- 6. Silicates phosphor
- 6.1. Introduction
- 6.2. Synthesis
- 6.3. Conclusion
- 7. Synthesis and photoluminescence in Eu2+ activated alkali/alkaline earth halides and chlorophosphate blue phosphors
- 7.1. Introduction
- 7.2. Review of Eu2+ emission
- 7.3. Synthesis of phosphor using wet chemical method
- 7.4. General features of Eu2+ in alkali halides
- 7.5. Result and discussion
- 7.6. Conclusion
- 8. Synthesis and luminescence properties of borates phosphor
- 8.1. Introduction
- 8.2. Experimental
- 8.3. Photoluminescence properties of borate-based phosphors
- 8.4. Summary
- 9. Synthesis and characterisation of some nitride based phosphor
- 9.1. Introduction
- 9.2. Review of silicon nitride materials
- 9.3. Silicon-nitride based phosphors and rare-earth ions
- 9.4. Experimental process
- 9.5. Optical investigation of Ce3+, Eu2+ and Tb3+ activated BaAlSi5O2N7 phosphors
- 9.6. Optical investigation of Ba3Si6O12N2:Eu2+ and Tb3+ phosphors
- 9.7. Optical investigation of BaSi6N8O:Eu3+ phosphor
- 9.8. Optical investigation of MYSi2Al2O2N5:Eu3+(M=Ba2+, Ca2+)
- 9.9. Summary
- 10. Phosphors for solar spectrum modification
- 10.1. Introduction
- 10.2. Solar spectrum mismatch
- 10.3. Phosphors and nanophosphors
- 10.4. Upconversion using rare-earth ion
- 10.5. Down-conversion using rare-earth ion
- 10.6. Concluding remarks
- 11. Phosphors for bioimaging applications
- 11.1. Introduction
- 11.2. Concept of phosphorescence
- 11.3. Phosphorescent materials (phosphors)
- 11.4. Different techniques of bioimaging along with merits and demerits
- 11.5. Bioimaging applications of phosphors
- 11.6. Other application of phosphors materials
- 11.7. Challenges
- 11.8. Conclusion
- Section Three. Organic LEDs phosphors
- 12. Photophysical investigations on Sm(TTA)3tppo complex blended in PMMA and PS
- 12.1. Introduction
- 12.2. Experimental
- 12.3. Result and discussion
- 12.4. Scope for application
- 12.5. Conclusions
- 13. Temperature dependence of methoxy substituted 2, 4-diphenyl quinoline phosphor toward OLED application
- 13.1. Introduction
- 13.2. Introduction to di-phenylene polyquinoline (DPQ)
- 13.3. Synthesis method
- 13.4. Results and discussion
- 13.5. Conclusion and summary
- 14. OLEDs: Emerging technology trends and designs
- 14.1. Introduction
- 14.2. Organic LEDs (OLEDs)
- 14.3. Evaluating OLED performance
- 14.4. Key improvements in the past
- 14.5. Today's emerging technology trends
- 14.6. Key challenges
- 14.7. Future scope
- 14.8. Conclusions
- Section Four. TLD phosphors
- 15. Thermoluminescence versatility in sulfate-based phosphors
- 15.1. Introduction
- 15.2. Luminescence
- 15.3. Structural design of TLD phosphors
- 15.4. Radiation dosimeters
- 15.5. Some phosphors in TLD
- 15.6. Sulfate-based TLD phosphors
- 15.7. Present and future scopes in thermoluminescence
- 15.8. Concluding remark
- 16. Recent progress and investigation of the RE-activated phosphate based phosphors for thermoluminescence dosimeter (TLD) applications
- 16.1. Introduction
- 16.2. Thermoluminescence mechanism
- 16.3. Phosphors and rare earth ions
- 16.4. Basic characteristics of TLD materials
- 16.5. Synthesis method
- 16.6. Phosphate phosphors and their characteristics
- 16.7. Future scope and opportunities in the development of TLD materials
- 16.8. Conclusion
- 17. Vanadate and tungstate based phosphors for thermo luminescence dosimetry
- 17.1. Introduction
- 17.2. Background of TL mechanism and dosimetry
- 17.3. Different synthesis routs of vanadate- and tungstate-based phosphors
- 17.4. TL properties of vanadate- and tungstate-based phosphors
- 17.5. Concluding remarks and future prospects
- 18. Thermoluminescent study of borates for dosimetric applications
- 18.1. Introduction
- 18.2. Methods of synthesis of borates
- 18.3. Characterization techniques for borates
- 18.4. Applications of borates
- 18.5. Thermoluminescence study of borates
- 18.6. Conclusions
- Index
- No. of pages: 440
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: January 15, 2023
- Imprint: Woodhead Publishing
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323905398
- eBook ISBN: 9780323906500
VP
Vijay B. Pawade
RK
Ritesh L. Kohale
SD
Sanjay J. Dhoble
HS