Abstract: A plasma display screen including a carrier plate, a transparent front plate, a ribbed structure which divides the space between the carrier plate and the front plate into plasma cells, which are filled with a gas, and including one or more electrode arrays for generating corona discharges in the plasma cells, and including a phosphor layer which includes a phosphor for generating red radiation selected from the group formed by rare earth metal borates of the general formula EA M11-x-yM2xEuyB9O16, where EA=Ca, Sr, Ba; M1=Gd, La; M2=Y, Lu, Sc, In and 0<x≦0.5, 0.01≦y≦0.4, and M31-r-sYrEusBO3, where M3=Sc,, In, Lu and 0.01≦r≦0.99, 0.01≦s≦0.15, is characterized by a red point which has shifted in the direction of a higher color saturation. In addition, the color contrast at brighter ambient lighting conditions is increased.

Abstract: A low-pressure gas discharge lamp comprising a gas discharge vessel with a gas filling containing mercury, and comprising electrodes, means for igniting and maintaining a gas discharge, and a phosphor coating containing at least one phosphor layer and a UV-C phosphor and a phosphor that can be excited by UV-C radiation.

Abstract: A light emitting device includes a light source that emits first light in response to an electrical signal, and a fluorescent layer positioned over the light source. The fluorescent layer includes a first fluorescent material which radiates second light and a second fluorescent material which radiates third light. In one embodiment, the second fluorescent material contains europium activated calcium sulfide. In another embodiment, the second fluorescent material contains europium activated nitrido-silicate. In some embodiments, the device includes a light propagation medium which transmits the first, second, and third light as composite output.

Abstract: A gas discharge lamp for dielectrically impeded discharges, which gas discharge lamp is provided with a discharge vessel filled with a gas filling, which discharge vessel comprises at least a wall of a dielectric material and at least a wall having a surface which is at least partly transparent to visible radiation and coated with a phosphor layer, which phosphor layer comprises a phosphor preparation of a phosphor powder and a coating, which coating comprises a compound selected from the group formed by the fluorides and orthophosphates of the elements magnesium, calcium, barium, aluminum, scandium, yttrium and lanthanum, and provided with an electrode structure for a dielectrically impeded discharge, and with means for igniting and maintaining the dielectrically impeded discharge.

Abstract: A low-pressure gas discharge lamp comprising a gas discharge vessel containing a gas filling with a chalcogenide of the elements of the 4th main group of the periodic systems of elements and a buffer gas, and comprising inner or outer electrodes and means for generating and maintaining a low-pressure gas discharge.

Abstract: The invention relates to a gas discharge lamp for dielectrically impeded discharges, which gas discharge lamp comprises a discharge vessel filled with a gas filling, which discharge vessel comprises at least one wall of a dielectric material and at least one wall having a surface which is at least partly transparent to visible radiation, and a phosphor layer containing a blue phosphor with a host lattice and Nd3+ as the activator, electrodes for a dielectrically impeded discharge and means for igniting and maintaining the discharge.

Abstract: A plasma display with a carrier plate, a transparent front plate, a ribbed structure which subdivides the space between the carrier plate and the front plate into plasma cells, which cells are filled with a gas, with one or several electrode arrays for generating corona discharges in the plasma cells, and with a phosphor layer which comprises a phosphor chosen from the group of doped europium(II)-activated barium-magnesium aluminates with the general formula

Abstract: The invention relates to a gas discharge lamp for dielectrically impeded discharges, which gas discharge lamp is provided with a discharge vessel filled with a gas filling, which discharge vessel comprises at least a wall of a dielectric material and at least a wall having a surface which is at least partly transparent to visible radiation and coated with a phosphor layer, which phosphor layer comprises a phosphor having a host lattice, Eu2+ as the activator and a doping D selected from the group formed by Ce3+, Pr3+ and Tb3+, and provided with an electrode structure for a dielectrically impeded discharge and means for igniting and maintaining the discharge. The invention also relates to a phosphor comprising a host lattice, Eu2+ as the activator and a doping D selected from the group formed by Ce3+, Pr3+ and Tb3+.

Abstract: The invention relates to a plasma picture screen provided with a phosphor layer (9) which comprises an intrinsically pigmented phosphor. The plasma picture screen has an improved value for the luminance contrast performance without the efficiency of the phosphors being detracted from.

Abstract: A metal M is chosen from the group formed by Y, Al and La, and a watery solution of a complex of M and an organic chelating agent is added to a suspension of luminescent material, which causes a layer of M2O3 to be deposited on the luminescent material, which is then separated, dried, and fired.

Abstract: Willemite (Zn2SiO4:Mn) is doped with one or more ions selected from the group formed by Gd3+, Eu2+, Co2+, Ce3+, Pr3+, Nd3+, Sm3+, Tb3+, Dy3+, Ho3+, Er3+, Tm3+ and Yb3+. This results in a increase in absorption and quantum yield and a decrease of the decay time.

Abstract: A plasma picture screen is provided with a front plate, which comprises a glass plate on which a dielectric layer and a protective layer are provided, with a carrier plate provided with a phosphor layer comprising a red and a blue phosphor as well as a green, Tb3+-activated phosphor, with a ribbed structure that subdivides the space between the front plate and the carrier plate into plasma cells filled with a gas comprising xenon, and with one or several electrode arrays on the front plate and the carrier plate for generating corona discharges in the plasma cells. The gas comprises xenon in a proportion of between 5 and 30% by volume.

Abstract: The invention relates to a plasma picture screen provided with a phosphor layer (9) which comprises a mixed particle mixture of a standard phosphor and a further phosphor which emits the same color. The use of two phosphors in one phosphor layer (9) renders it possible for undesirable properties of the phosphors to cancel each other out.

Abstract: The invention describes a plasma picture screen, in particular an AC plasma picture screen, with enhanced luminance. The front plate (1) comprises a glass plate (3) to which a dielectric layer (4), a UV-reflecting layer (8), and a protective layer (5) are applied. The UV-reflecting layer (8) shows a high reflection in the wavelength range of the plasma emission (>172 nm) and a high transmission in the visible wavelength range. The UV-reflecting layer (8) reflects UV light (12) emitted in the direction of the front plate (1) back towards the phosphors (10).

Abstract: The invention describes a light-emitting device (1) which comprises a light-emitting diode and a phosphor layer. To prolong the useful life of the light-emitting device (1), a phosphor (4) in the phosphor layer (2) has a water-resistant coating. FIG.

Abstract: A luminescent material is dispersed in a watery solution of sodium polyphosphate, a watery solution of a nitrate of the metal M is added, after which the luminescent material is separated, dried and fired. The metal is chosen from the group consisting of Ca, Sr, and Ba, whereby a protective layer of metal polyphosphate is formed on the luminescent material.

Abstract: The device for disinfecting water comprises a gas discharge lamp including a discharge vessel with walls composed of a dielectric material, which walls are provided on their outer surfaces with at least a first and a second electrode, and which discharge vessel contains a gas filling containing xenon, the inner surface of the walls being at least partly covered with a coating containing a phosphor emitting in the UV-C range. Such a device for disinfecting water can always be made 100% operation within milliseconds, and the UV-radiation of the device has a spectral composition which lies exclusively in the range relevant for disinfecting, i.e. between 230 and 300 nm.

Abstract: A rare-gas low-pressure discharge lamp for generating ultraviolet light, in particular for cosmetic or therapeutic purposes, has a discharge vessel which is filled with rare gas and is at least partly transparent to UV light and which is at least partly coated with a phosphor which radiates UV light upon excitation by an excitation radiation produced in the discharge vessel so as to utilize a desired spectral range.

Abstract: A gas discharge lamp for dielectrically impeded discharges, which gas discharge lamp is provided with a discharge vessel filled with a gas filling, which discharge vessel comprises at least a wall of a dielectric material and at least a wall having a surface which is at least partly transparent to visible radiation and coated with a phosphor layer, which phosphor layer comprises a phosphor preparation of a phosphor powder and a coating, which coating comprises a compound selected from the group formed by the fluorides and orthophosphates of the elements magnesium, calcium, barium, aluminum, scandium, yttrium and lanthanum, and provided with an electrode structure for a dielectrically impeded discharge, and with means for igniting and maintaining the dielectrically impeded discharge.

Abstract: The invention relates to a color picture screen with an improved blue light emission. The blue phosphor layer comprises a first blue-emitting phosphor and a second phosphor which shows a light emission in the range from 380 to 450 nm.