In the Editor's Choice [1] the development and demonstration of a highly efficient warm‐white all‐nitride phosphor‐converted light emitting diode (pc‐LED) is presented utilizing a GaN based quantum well blue LED and two novel nitrogen containing luminescent materials doped with Eu2+. These novel LEDs are superior to both incandescent and fluorescent lamps and may therefore become the next generation of general lighting sources.
The cover picture is an artist's view of the 2‐pc‐LED: On a copper slug and underneath a plastic lens a ‘flip‐chip’ is soldered to metal contacts; ‘flip‐chip’ meaning the substrate on which the stack of GaN and InGaN layers has been deposited is used as light exit, the (bottom) p‐contacts being highly reflective. The color converting phosphors are placed on top of the chip, embedded in silicone. Primary blue as well as color‐converted red and green photons are emitted.
The first author, Regina Mueller‐Mach, manages the Charac‐terization Laboratory at Lumileds which runs R&D work on phosphor converted LEDs in close cooperation with Philips Research Laboratories and the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry of the University of Munich.
Optical and structural properties of rare earth complexes with 2-pyridine carboxylic acid (' Hpic ') are evaluated by luminescence spectroscopy, decay measurements, X-ray crystal structure determination, FTIR, DTA and metal content analysis. Corresponding Tb 3+ and Eu 3+ complexes of this ligand are extraordinarily efficient with respect to their luminescence. In the crystalline state the series is isostructural and composed of M[Ln(pic) 4 ]ÁnH 2 O (M ¼ Na, NH 4 ; Ln ¼ Eu, Gd, Tb, Ho) with pic-linked [Ln(pic) 4 ] À units forming a chainlike structure, which gives rise to a one-dimensional exchange communication between the rare earth ions; this energy transfer being confined to the chains. Energy transfer of the Coulomb type between the ligands appears to be of significance only, if suitable rare earth acceptor states are not accessible, as is shown for a series of [La(pic) 4 ] À series, in which La 3+ is gradually substituted by Tb 3+ or Eu 3+ .
Ion-induced secondary electron emission coefficients for Ne, Ar, and Xe discharges are reproducibly determined using V-Q Lissajous figures. The comparison of measured and calculated Paschen curves results in ion-induced γ-coefficients for glass, MgO, CVD diamond, and phosphors. The measured γ-values correlate well with a simple model based on the ionization energy of the gas ion and the band gap and electron affinity of the solid.
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