ABSTRACT
The writer of this report has, during about 25 years of practical experience, prepared and tested roughly 2 × 104 individual samples of inorganic phosphors of various kinds. It is unavoidable in such work that many samples perform too poorly to be worth mentioning. Many others were just repetitions during optimizations, etc. of the same materials. What remains are relatively few. This report describes some 200 phosphors which are commercially in use already, which appear to have some potential to become commercially useful, or which are otherwise somehow “interesting” (to the writer, at least). Most of them are well known (more or less), but some are new and have never been mentioned anywhere else. The following tables give, for each phosphor, a brief description of how to prepare it and an equally brief description of its main properties. References to open publications or internal reports, where available, are added to help anyone wishing to know more about a particular material than these tables can give.
