Phosphor-converted white light-emitting diodes (pc-WLEDs) are emerging as an indispensable solid-state light source for the next generation lighting industry and display systems due to their unique properties including but not limited to energy savings, environment-friendliness, small volume, and long persistence. Until now, major challenges in pc-WLEDs have been to achieve high luminous efficacy, high chromatic stability, brilliant color-rending properties, and price competitiveness against fluorescent lamps, which rely critically on the phosphor properties. A comprehensive understanding of the nature and limitations of phosphors and the factors dominating the general trends in pc-WLEDs is of fundamental importance for advancing technological applications. This report aims to provide the most recent advances in the synthesis and application of phosphors for pc-WLEDs with emphasis specifically on: (a) principles to tune the excitation and emission spectra of phosphors: prediction according to crystal field theory, and structural chemistry characteristics (e.g. covalence of chemical bonds, electronegativity, and polarization effects of element); (b) pc-WLEDs with phosphors excited by blue-LED chips: phosphor characteristics, structure, and activated ions (i.e. Ce 3+ and Eu 2+ ), including YAG:Ce, other garnets, non-garnets, sulfides, and (oxy)nitrides; (c) pc-WLEDs with phosphors excited by near ultraviolet LED chips: single-phased white-emitting phosphors (e.g. Eu 2+ –Mn 2+ activated phosphors), red-green-blue phosphors, energy transfer, and mechanisms involved; and (d) new clues for designing novel high-performance phosphors for pc-WLEDs based on available LED chips. Emphasis shall also be placed on the relationships among crystal structure, luminescence properties, and device performances. In addition, applications, challenges and future advances of pc-WLEDs will be discussed.

Phosphors in phosphor-converted white light-emitting diodes: Recent advances in materials, techniques and properties

Boron dipyrromethene (BODIPY) derivatives 1 and 2 consisting of donor and acceptor units with dual photoresponses to solvent polarity and luminogen aggregation are developed through taking advantage of twisted intramolecular charge transfer (TICT) and aggregation-induced emission (AIE) processes. In nonpolar solvents, the locally excited (LE) states of the BODIPY luminogens emit intense green lights. Increasing solvent polarity brings the luminogens from the LE state to the TICT state, causing a large bathochromic shift in the emission color but a dramatic decrease in the emission efficiency. The red emission is greatly boosted by aggregate formation or AIE effect: addition of large amounts of water into the solutions of 1 and 2 in the polar solvents causes the luminogens to aggregate supramolecularly and to emit efficiently. The emission can be enhanced by increasing solvent viscosity and decreasing solution temperature, indicating that the AIE effect is caused by the restriction of the intramolecular ro...

Twisted Intramolecular Charge Transfer and Aggregation-Induced Emission of BODIPY Derivatives

During the past few decades, the research on persistent luminescent materials has focused mainly on Eu2+-doped compounds. However, the yearly number of publications on non-Eu2+-based materials has also increased steadily. By now, the number of known persistent phosphors has increased to over 200, of which over 80% are not based on Eu2+, but rather, on intrinsic host defects, transition metals (manganese, chromium, copper, etc.) or trivalent rare earths (cerium, terbium, dysprosium, etc.). In this review, we present an overview of these non-Eu2+-based persistent luminescent materials and their afterglow properties. We also take a closer look at some remaining challenges, such as the excitability with visible light and the possibility of energy transfer between multiple luminescent centers. Finally, we summarize the necessary elements for a complete description of a persistent luminescent material, in order to allow a more objective comparison of these phosphors.

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Persistent Luminescence in Non-Eu2+-Doped Compounds: A Review.

Preface. Contents of volumes 1-6. 1. Magnetism in ultrathin transition metal films (U. Gradmann). 2. Energy band theory of metallic magnetism in the elements (V.L. Moruzzi, P.M. Marcus). 3. Density functional theory of the ground state magnetic properties of rare earths and actinides (M.S.S. Brooks, B. Johansson). 4. Diluted magnetic semiconductors (J. Kossut, W. Dobrowolski). 5. Magnetic properties of binary rare-earth 3d-transition-metal intermetallic compounds (J.J.M. Franse, R.J. Radwanski). 6. Neutron scattering on heavy fermion and valence fluctuation 4f-systems (M. Loewenhaupt, K.H. Fischer). Author index. Subject index. Materials index.

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Time-resolved streak camera system with solid state laser and optical parametric generator in different spectroscopic applications

Estimation of ground-and excited-state dipole moments of Nile Red dye from solvatochromic effect on absorption and fluorescence spectra

Fluorescent dimers of rhodamine 6G in concentrated ethylene glycol solution

The processes of excitation energy transfer in phosphors based on single-crystal Tb3Al5O12:Ce (TbAG:Ce) and Tb3Al5O12:Ce,Eu (TbAG:Ce,Eu) garnet films have been investigated. These films are considered to be promising materials for screens for X-ray images and luminescence converters of blue LED radiation. The conditions for excitation energy transfer from the matrix (Tb3+ cations) to Ce3+ and Eu3+ ions in TbAG:Ce and TbAG:Ce,Eu phosphors have been analyzed in detail. It is established that a cascade process of excitation energy transfer from Tb3+ ions to Ce3+ and Eu3+ ions and from Ce3+ ions to Eu3+ ions is implemented in TbAG:Ce,Eu via dipole-dipole interaction and through the Tb3+ cation sublattice.

Luminescence properties of phosphors based on Tb 3 Al 5 O 12 (TbAG) terbium-aluminum garnet

The effect of temperature on the absorption and fluorescence properties of 1,6-diphenyl-1,3,5-hexatriene (DPH) in poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) film was investigated in the range 295–428 K. On heating above 353 K, the optical density (in the long-wavelength region) and the quantum yield of DPH increase rapidly. This effect is irreversible, i.e. once the sample is heated it retains its absorbance and fluorescence quantum yield on cooling to room temperature. It has its origin in the cis—trans conversion of DPH molecules in the PVA melt at high temperatures.

Benedykt Kukliński

Papers

Time-resolved streak camera system with solid state laser and optical parametric generator in different spectroscopic applications

Estimation of ground-and excited-state dipole moments of Nile Red dye from solvatochromic effect on absorption and fluorescence spectra

Fluorescent dimers of rhodamine 6G in concentrated ethylene glycol solution

Luminescence properties of phosphors based on Tb 3 Al 5 O 12 (TbAG) terbium-aluminum garnet

Unusual absorption and fluorescence properties of 1,6-diphenyl- 1,3,5-hexatriene in poly(vinyl alcohol) film