Metal Oxide-Based Phosphors: Properties and Applications focuses on the basic principles, experimental techniques, and various applications of luminescent materials derived from metal oxides. The book is divided into three parts, with Part One presenting the fundamentals of luminescent materials and experimental methods, including different synthesis and characterization techniques. Part Two provides strategies to enhance luminescence through various host matrices, constructing hybrid phosphors with polymeric materials, and doping with non-rare earth elements. Finally, Part Three explores recent developments of metal oxide-based phosphors in various applications, including photovoltaics, solid-state lighting, anti-counterfeiting, radiation dosimeters, and chemical sensors.
Luminescent materials show enormous potential in a wide range of applications, such as solid-state lighting, energy, display imaging, and optical thermometry. Developing novel metal oxide-based phosphors and exploring green technologies and methods for the preparation of high-performance phosphor materials is therefore vital for a number of industries.
PART 1: FUNDAMENTALS OF METAL OXIDES LUMINESCENT MATERIALS
1. An overview of metal oxide luminescent materials: History and progress
2. Luminescence mechanisms of metal oxides-based phosphors
3. Long persistent metal oxides-based phosphors
4. Synthesis approach based on derived metal oxides-based phosphors: Defects
modulation and bandgap tailoring
5. Material characterization of metal oxide-based phosphors: Powders and thin
films
PART 2: STRATEGIES OF ENHANCING LUMINESCENCE PERFORMANCE OF METAL
OXIDES-BASED PHOSPHORS
6. Electronic and crystal structures of garnet phosphor materials: Silicate,
aluminate, gallate and germanate
7. Luminescence characteristics of phosphate and borate-based metal oxide
phosphors
8. Luminescence properties of tungstate and vanadate-based metal oxide
phosphors
9. Luminescence dynamics of single and double perovskite-based metal oxide
phosphors
10. Dynamics of metal-organic frameworks (MOF)-oxide luminescent hybrid
materials
11. Luminescence characteristics of MXene-oxide phosphor composite materials
12. Polymeric materials and functionalization of luminescent-based metal
oxides
13. Influence of magnetic properties on luminescence features of ferrites
spinel-based metal oxides
14. Doping metal oxide-based phosphors with non-rare earth elements: Noble
and transition metals
PART 3: RECENT TRENDS FOR APPLICATIONS OF METAL OXIDES-BASED PHOSPHORS
15. Metal oxide-based phosphors for solid-state lighting applications
16. Metal oxide phosphors for thermoluminescence radiation dosimetry
applications
17. Metal oxide-based luminescent materials for bioimaging and biomedical
applications: Phototherapy and antimicrobial
18. Metal oxide-based phosphors for anti-counterfeiting applications
19. Metal oxide-phosphors suitable for solar spectral converters for
photovoltaics
20. Metal oxide-based phosphors for chemiresistive sensors
21. Metal oxide-based phosphors for optical thermometry applications
Teboho P. Mokoena is a senior lecturer in the Department of Physics at the University of the Free State, Phuthaditjhaba, South Africa. His research focusses on luminescence in nanomaterials.
Sefako J. Mofokeng is a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Physics at the University of South Africa, Roodepoort, South Africa. His research interests lie in luminescence and nanomaterials synthesis and characterization.
David E. Motaung is a professor in the Department of Physics at the University of the Free State, South Africa. His current research interests include the design, synthesis, and characterization of semiconductor metal oxides, metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), perovskite, and MXenes nanostructured materials, and their application in gas sensing devices for food quality and air quality monitoring.
Hendrik C. Swart is a senior professor in the Department of Physics at the University of the Free State, South Africa. His research investigates the degradation of phosphors for field emission displays, as well as developing materials for nano solid-state lighting. He has been key in the development of processes to synthesize and deposit thin films of several types of semiconductor nanoparticles to enhance the color, luminescent intensity, and lifetime of such displays.
