We present a novel "Top-down" strategy to design the long phosphorescent phosphors in the second biological transparency window via energy transfer. Inherence in this approach to material design involves an ingenious engineering for hybridizing the coordination networks of hosts, tailoring the topochemical configuration of dopants, and bridging a cascaded tunnel for transferring the persistent ...

Silicates are important class of materials due to their applications in many diverse areas. They proved to be an effective materials for various processes and materials related to applied mineralogy including technical and medieval glasses, blast furnace linings and combustion ashes. This study reports the synthesis and luminescence of Eu, Ce, Dy and Sm activated K4CaSi3O9 and BaCa2Si3O9 phosph...

The decay of thermographic phosphors has been used to measure temperature in a wide variety of applications. Because measurements of a single temperature are obtained from intensity decay in time, the use of phosphors is predicated on the fact that the temperature does not change during the decay. This may not be valid in some engineering applications. A new model for phosphor data reduction de...

Recently, significant advances have occurred in the development of phosphors for bio hybrid light-emitting diodes (Bio-HLEDs), which have created brighter, metal-free, rare-earth phosphor-free, eco-friendly, and cost-competitive features for visible light emission. Here, we demonstrate an original approach using bioinspired phosphors in Bio-HLEDs based on natural deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)-cur...

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 (...

Nanoparticles of strontium aluminate phosphors co-a tivated by Eu2+ and Dy3+ have been prepared by heating theprecursorsobtained fromnitrate salt–ammoniumacetic–urea–gel combustionprocess at temperature of 1150 ◦C in a weak reductive atmosphere of thermal carbon. Transmission electronmicroscope

We present time-lapsed microscopy and EXAFS/XANES data on size selected ground ZnS:Cu,Cl and ZnS:Cu,Mn,Cl phosphors to probe long standing problems in using these phosphors in high brightness applications. The time-lapsed study shows that many of the individual emission centers on each particle degrade via large step decreases while < 50% have a monotonic decrease. These large steps suggest a b...

This review article summarizes the recent achievements in stabilization of the metastable lattice of gadolinium aluminate garnet (Gd3Al5O12, GAG) and the related developments of advanced optical materials, including down-conversion phosphors, up-conversion phosphors, transparent ceramics, and single crystals. Whenever possible, the materials are compared with their better known YAG and LuAG cou...

Y2O3:Eu were prepared through precursors synthesized by leaching tests, removing impurities, enrichment of Y and Eu from residual purified liquors, annealing treatment, and high temperature solid-state reaction method, which is the most suitable for large-scale production. The analysis of product shows that the purity is 99.42%. The resultant powders were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD...

In this combined X-ray diffraction and photoluminescence study, the coordination environment of Mn(2+) and the photoluminescence of single Mn(2+) doped KMgBO3 phosphors were studied. Mn(2+) occupies Mg(2+) sites, which were coordinated by six O(2-). The strong absorption of KMgBO3:Mn(2+) was ascribed to the strong relaxation of spin and parity forbidden d-d transitions of Mn(2+). The emission b...