Lanthanide-Doped Aluminate Phosphors

Lanthanide Doped Aluminate Phosphors: Synthesis, Properties, and Applications is an overview of the advances of research on aluminate-based long persistent phosphors and their applications in lighting, display, radiation dosimetry, and imaging. The book reviews the most important categories of rare earth aluminate-based phosphors including aluminosilicates and aluminoborates. This category of material is attractive for a wide range of applications because of their high quantum efficiency, long afterglow life, chemical stability and optical properties, which is discussed throughout. Optical properties, in particular, are emphasized in the book along with the relationship of the chemical composition and doping of these materials and their optical performance. Lanthanide Doped Aluminate Phosphors: Synthesis, Properties, and Applications is suitable for researchers and practitioners working in academia and research and development in industry in the disciplines of materials science and engineering, chemistry and physics. Introduces rare-earth doped aluminates synthesis and characterization strategies, properties and applications Focuses on the different types of aluminates such as monoaluminates, binary aluminates and hexaaluminates, aluminoborates, and aluminosilicate systems Discusses optical properties of phosphors such as photoluminescent long persistence and thermo luminescence