Luminescent Ceramics: Fundamentals, Properties, Processing and Applications provides a detailed review of luminescent ceramic materials for lighting, dosimetry and security. The book's chapters cover oxide, nitride and fluoride phosphors, garnet transparent ceramics, oxynitride and BeO ceramics, doped MgAl2O4 ceramics for dosimetry and novel thermo-luminescent ceramics for light emitting devices and security applications. The book provides a comprehensive overview of the unique possibilities offered by ceramic materials in the field of light emission and applications. It will be an essential reference resource for any ceramist working in the area of luminescent materials. Luminescent ceramics have become attractive candidates for the development of modern light sources. These ceramics can be used in LEDs, displays and scintillators. Luminescent ceramics can be classified depending on their functionalities. Phosphors are used in a variety of display applications, such as electroluminescent, photoluminescent, plasma and field emission displays, LCDs, cathode ray tubes (CRTs), X-ray detectors, and LEDs.
Table of Contents
Part I Introduction to luminescent ceramics1. The fundamentals of light-related phenomena in ceramic materials
Part II Applications of luminescent ceramics
2. Oxide phosphors
3. Fluoride phosphors
4. BeO ceramics
5. Effect of different dopant elements on thermoluminescence
6. Novel thermo-luminescent ceramics
7. Novel luminescent transparent ceramics for light emitting devices
8. Luminescent materials for anticounterfeiting inks and fingerprint imaging
9. Luminescent thermometers based on lanthanide
10. Luminescent materials for textile
11. Lanthanide-doped Y2O3 nanophosphors
12. Nitride phosphors