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    A phosphor is a substance that exhibits the phenomenon of luminescence; it emits light when exposed to some type of radiant energy. The term is used both...
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    brighter rare earth phosphors began replacing dimmer and cadmium-containing red and green phosphors. Eventually blue phosphors were replaced as well...
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    Phosphor bronze is a member of the family of copper alloys. It is composed of copper that is alloyed with 0.5–11% of tin and 0.01–0.35% phosphorus, and...
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    Screen burn-in (redirect from Phosphor burn)
    that no one area of the screen remained illuminated for too long. With phosphor-based electronic visual displays (i.e. CRT-type computer monitors, oscilloscope...
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    obtained by using multiple semiconductors or a layer of light-emitting phosphor on the semiconductor device. Appearing as practical electronic components...
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    alternating-intensity red, green, and blue phosphors, monochrome monitors have only one color of phosphor (mono means "one", and chrome means "color")...
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  • In phosphors and scintillators, the activator is the element added as dopant to the crystal of the material to create desired type of nonhomogeneities...
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    Photostimulated luminescence (PSL) is the release of stored energy within a phosphor by stimulation with visible light, to produce a luminescent signal. X-rays...
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    current in the gas excites mercury vapor, to produce ultraviolet and make a phosphor coating in the lamp glow. Fluorescent lamps convert electrical energy into...
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    phosphor material, light is emitted through the process of phosphorescence. The overall process of using a radioactive material to excite a phosphor and...
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  • Phosphor thermometry is an optical method for surface temperature measurement. The method exploits luminescence emitted by phosphor material. Phosphors...
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    contains tritium and a phosphor. As tritium decays, it emits beta particles; these strike the phosphor, causing the phosphor to give off photons, much...
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    The term calcium phosphate refers to a family of materials and minerals containing calcium ions (Ca2+) together with inorganic phosphate anions. Some so-called...
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  • Laser-powered phosphor display (LPD) is a large-format display technology similar to the cathode-ray tube (CRT). Prysm, Inc., a video wall designer and...
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    cathode-ray tube, but operating at much lower voltages. Each tube in a VFD has a phosphor-coated carbon anode that is bombarded by electrons emitted from the cathode...
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    mask is a metal plate punched with tiny holes that separate the colored phosphors in the layer behind the front glass of the screen. Shadow masks are made...
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  • radioluminescent phosphor chemical. The radioisotope continually decays, emitting radiation particles which strike molecules of the phosphor, exciting them...
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  • laser – Type of gas laser Laser diode – Semiconductor laser Laser excited phosphor – Devices and processes that produce lightPages displaying short descriptions...
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    a 45-degree line was drawn. The 740's CRT used a short persistence P11 phosphor. The film used was 35 mm and was stored in a magazine that could hold up...
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    Strontium aluminate (category Phosphors and scintillators)
    (e.g. europium, written as Eu:SrAl2O4), it acts as a photoluminescent phosphor with long persistence of phosphorescence. Strontium aluminates exist in...
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    is called a phosphor. Radioluminescent light sources usually consist of a radioactive substance mixed with, or in proximity to, a phosphor. Since radioactivity...
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  • Phosphor bands were introduced on British stamps from 1959 as a replacement for the previous graphite lined stamps as an aid in the mechanical sorting...
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    printing, laser scanning, and light beam illumination. With the use of a phosphor like that found on white LEDs, laser diodes can be used for general illumination...
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    In cathode-ray tube (CRT) terms, a triad is a group of 3 phosphor dots coloured red, green, and blue on the inside of the CRT display of a computer monitor...
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    phosphor coating, increasing the total visible light output by around a factor of two. As well it prevents physical phosphors degradation, "phosphor poisoning"...
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  • hexafluoromanganate(IV) (K2[MnF6], with Mn4+) it forms a narrow band red producing phosphor, (often abbreviated PSF or KSF), of economic interest due to its applicability...
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  • fluorobromide doped with europium (BaFBr:Eu) or caesium bromide (CsBr) phosphor. The phosphor detector records the X-ray energy during exposure and is scanned...
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    subpixel cell is coated with red phosphor, another is coated with green phosphor, and the third cell is coated with blue phosphor. Light emitted from the subpixel...
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    above a given threshold (depending on the phosphor mix) it also causes electrons to be struck out of the phosphor. These electrons travel a short distance...
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  • subsidiaries. It specializes in the manufacturing and distribution of phosphors, including light-emitting diodes (LEDs), laser diodes, battery materials...
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