ABSTRACT
Volume 1 of the handbook serves as a background for Volumes 2 and 3, but it is also an independent volume for readers to gain fundamental knowledge on phosphor luminescence. In this volume, Chapter 2 presents a general background of luminescence; Chapter 3 introduces principal phosphor materials and their optical properties, including II-VI and III-V semiconductors, nitrides, silicon carbide, perovskite, superlattice and quantum structures; Chapter 4 elucidates the different energy transfer processes that often occur in phosphorescence; Chapter 5 discusses the upconversion processes in nanophosphors, another popular phenomena with increasing applications; and Chapter 6 introduces organic and polymer phosphors. Before reading the following chapters in detail, we briefly introduce the luminescence phenomenon and its general physical background using rare-earth or transition metal–doped phosphor as an example.
