Phosphor

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This performance is 5.6 times as high as that observed in previous studies using the same phosphor.

From Science Daily • Dec. 2, 2024

First, it’s possible that losing the phosphor layer dims the lamps’ brightness—and streetlights are supposed to emit a certain level of light depending on the type of the road that they’re used on.

From Scientific American • Sep. 27, 2023

A byproduct of private and industrial food consumption and processing, sludge and compost can replace some of the nitrogen and phosphor from synthetic fertilizers.

From Salon • Sep. 29, 2022

For example, he says, CMI developed a red phosphor for fluorescent lighting that does not require rare europium.

From Science Magazine • Aug. 11, 2021

His little phosphor LED showed the dust snake slither where the copper cables had gone before him.

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi