Abstract: A nonspecular reflective visual display having a plurality of display elements with a substantially thin conformal layer of encapsulation material placed on a surface of the display elements. The conformal layer of encapsulation material diffusely reflects light incident upon the display, thereby eliminating glare.

Abstract: A trolling motor foot control for use with a trolling motor is disclosed. The trolling motor foot control includes a pad adapted to receive an operator's foot, a first operating interface coupled to the pad and adapted to be coupled to the trolling motor and a second operator interface coupled to the pad and adapted to be coupled to the trolling motor. The first operator interface is configured to adjust a speed of the trolling motor at a first rate in response to input from the operator's foot. The second operator interface is configured to adjust the speed of the trolling motor at a second smaller rate in response to input from the operator's foot.

Abstract: A CRT has an improved contrast with the provision of a filter layer where nano-sized metal particles and colored particles are dispersed in a dielectric matrix to selectively absorb light in predetermined wavelengths, specifically wavelengths between peak wavelengths of primary colors emitted by phosphors coated on the inner surface of the faceplate. The improved contrast is a result of the metal particles in a dielectric matrix resonating with particular wavelengths and thus absorbing them.

Abstract: A glass envelope for a cathode ray tube (10) and a method of production. The envelope comprises (12) a panel member having a thickness (t) that is defined by an equation which involves net tensile stress; wherein the panel having a net tensile stress not exceeding 1150 psi, having a surface compression induced during panel manufacture, and having an implosion protection band (30) shrink-fitted around a skirt (20) on the panel that augments surface compression in the panel (12), whereby the panel thickness is substantially less than that of a corresponding untreated tube envelope.

Abstract: A color cathode ray tube comprises a metal back layer containing a co-vapor deposition layer of a first metal such as Al or the like and a metal oxide high in heat absorptivity, such as Fe3O4, NiO, NiFe2O4, Cr2O3, MnO2 or the like. The metal back layer may be manufactured at low costs and may be high in heat absorption and may not deteriorate in reflectivity in the course of heating.

Abstract: A cathode ray tube which comprises a front panel coated with a nonglare film having a multi-layered structure. The multi-layered structure comprises at least a visible light absorbing layer containing a black dye, and an antistatic layer containing an inorganic metal compound as a conductive agent.

Abstract: A panel is provided with a substantially rectangular effective portion that has a substantially flat outer surface, and a phosphor screen is formed on the inner surface of the effective portion. A shadow mask that is opposed to the phosphor screen includes a substantially rectangular mask body formed having a large number of electron beam holes and a mask frame supporting the peripheral edge portion of the mask body. The interval between the electron beam holes in the direction of the major axis of the mask body increases from the center of the mask body toward the major axis end so that the rate of change of the interval has a maximum value in the region between the center of the mask body and the major axis end.

Abstract: Panel in a cathode ray tube having a flat outside and a curved inside surfaces, which can provide a perfect flat image at an appropriate distance of view, wherein a condition of 2.48×106(mm2)≦R×CFT≦4.38×106(mm2) is set for the CRT for use as a TV receiver, and a condition of 2.17×105(mm2)≦R×CFT≦6.93×105(mm2) is set for the CRT for use as a monitor, where R is a curvature represented by at least one of vertical, horizontal and diagonal curvatures of the inside surface of the panel and CFT is a center thickness of the panel.

Abstract: A cathode ray tube and a method of manufacturing the cathode ray tube, wherein a black matrix layer and at least one phosphor layer is formed on inner surface of panel portion, a filming liquid containing an acrylic emulsion having methyl methacrylate as a major component is applied on the at least one phosphor layer, the filming liquid is dried to make an organic film resin on the at least one phosphor layer, a metal is metal deposited on the organic film, and the portion is baked to remove the organic film.

Abstract: A display device (1) comprises a display screen (10) which comprises a blue color filter layer (24B) and a blue phosphor (25B). The blue phosphor with or covered by blue pigments.

Abstract: A cathode ray tube glass comprises a clean cathode ray tube made of glass and a coating film composed of at least one water-soluble material selected from the group consisting of water-soluble salts, acids being solid at room temperature, monosaccharides and polysaccharides, which is formed on a glass surface of the cathode ray tube in an amount of 0.01-100 &mgr;g/cm2 or to a film thickness of 0.1-200 nm.

Abstract: A light-emitting structure contains a plate (20), light-emissive regions (34R, 36G, and 38B) overlying the plate, and a dark region (40DR/46DC, 40IR/56DC, 60DR/66DC, or 76DR/80DR/80DC) overlying the plate and laterally surrounding each light-emissive region. In one aspect, the dark region is formed with (a) multiple first strips (40DR, 40IR, 60DR, or 76DR) extending in one direction and (b) multiple second strips (46DC, 56DC, 66DC, or 80DC) extending in another direction and also extending further away from the plate than the first strips. In another aspect, the dark region contains trapezoidally profiled strips (86), each having a width profile shaped like an upright trapezoid.

Abstract: A color cathode ray tube has a vacuum enclosure including a panel unit having a fluorescent film formed on an inner face, the fluorescent film consisting of densely arrayed three color dot trios of a fluorescent material. A shadow mask is mounted in the vicinity of the fluorescent film. The color cathode ray tube further includes a neck unit housing an electron gun for emitting three electron beams and a funnel unit for joining the panel unit and the neck unit. The panel unit has a diagonal diameter of not more than 52 cm and an effective display area on an outer face of the panel unit has a diagonal radius of curvature of not less than 1,300 mm. The dot trios of the fluorescent material are horizontally arrayed in a number of approximately at least 1600, and a cover film is applied to the panel unit to lower optical transmittance.

Abstract: A cathode ray tube has a metal film formed to cover phosphor areas of a phosphor layer on an inner wall of a panel portion of an envelope. The metal film is formed over an organic film resin applied to the phosphor layer, the organic film resin is baked and removed so that the metal film covers the phosphor layer, and cracks are formed in the metal film in a greater number on side portions of the phosphor areas than on an upper portion of the phosphor areas. This construction results in a cathode ray tube with a metal film that can prevent a blister phenomenon and a reduction in brightness.

Abstract: A display screen having a color filter including a black matrix formed on a substrate of the display screen. A number of color filter layers, each formed in holes of the matrix, provide filtering of light components corresponding to the color of the filter layer. Also provided is one other color filter layer of a final color. This other color filter is also formed on the matrix and formed in another one of the other holes. Consequently, the other color filter layer can be formed without the need of exposing an associated resist layer, thereby simplifying the color filter manufacturing process.

Abstract: A color filter solution for applying on a face glass of a cathode ray tube and a method for patterning a color filter to improve the brightness and contrast characteristics of the color filter. The color filter solution comprises a pigment, an anion surfactant which contains sodium or ammonium ion or citric acid as a dispersion agent, a mixture solvent of a glycol and a pyrrolidone containing methyl or ethyl, a nonionic surfactant and a pure water. A method for patterning a color filter in a cathode ray tube comprises the steps of:preparing a color filter solution which comprises a pigment, an anion surfactant which contains sodium or ammonium ion or citric acid as a dispersion agent, a mixture solvent of a glycol and a pyrrolidone containing methyl or ethyl, and a nonionic surfactant;forming a photoresist slurry by adding an alcohol-sodium or ammonium dichromate to the color filter solution ; andcoating, exposing and developing the photoresist slurry on a face glass.

Abstract: A color cathode-ray tube includes an antireflection layer and a black matrix layer on the inner surface of a face plate thereof. The antireflection layer contains SiO.sub.2 fine particles and is deposited on the inner surface of the face plate without being interposed between the face plate and the black matrix layer.

Abstract: An explosion-proof film being good in visibility, scratch-resistance, and workability, and a cathode-ray tube using the film. The explosion-proof film includes a transparent plastic film as a base material; and a reflection preventive film having two or more layers, which is formed on one surface of the plastic film; wherein, of the two or more layers of the reflection preventive film, at least one has a light absorption function, and at least another has a conductive function. The explosion-proof film is stuck on a surface of a panel glass constituting a display screen of a cathode-ray tube, to thereby give an explosion-proof function to the cathode-ray tube, to achieve lightweightness of the cathode-ray tub, and to obtain the optimum visual contrast. The explosion-proof film may be formed of three or more layers.

Abstract: A method for forming a conductively coated matrix structure for separating rows and columns of sub-pixels on the faceplate of a flat panel display device. In one embodiment, the present invention deposits a photoresistive material over the interior surface of a faceplate having a non-conductive matrix structure formed thereon. The photoresistive material is deposited into sub-pixel regions separated by the matrix structure. The photoresistive material is dried and exposed in the sub-pixel regions. After unexposed photoresistive material is removed, a layer of aluminum is evaporated over the interior surface of the faceplate such that the matrix structure and the exposed layer of photoresistive material in the sub-pixel regions is coated with a conductive layer of aluminum. Next, the present invention applies an etchant to the exposed photoresistive material disposed in the sub-pixel regions.

Abstract: A display device utilizes a plurality of pixels arranged in a predetermined configuration for recording and displaying information. Each pixel includes a substrate and a light modulating material for selectively modulating a predetermined wave length of light by transitioning between a first and a second state in response to a heater element. The light modulating material in the first state causes destructive interference in the predetermined wave length of light and in the second state causes constructive interference in the predetermined wave length of light. The pixel structure is buried within an aerogel thereby minimizing the heat dissipation rate from the pixels.

Abstract: A front panel for a plasma display comprising a transparent substrate and two or more electroconductive films, each electroconductive film comprising a transparent polymer film with a transparent electroconductive layer on at least one surface thereof, can effectively shield an electromagnetic wave and can be produced in a simple process.

Abstract: Openings are created in a structure by a process in which a plate is furnished with a sacrificial patterned masking layer divided into multiple laterally separated mask portions. A primary layer of actinic material is provided over the masking layer and in space between the mask portions. Material of the primary layer not shadowed by a mask formed with the mask portions is backside exposed to actinic radiation. Material of the primary layer not exposed to the radiation is removed. Segments of the masking layer not covered by exposed material of the primary layer are then removed. Consequently, openings extend through the primary layer where the segments of the masking layer have been removed. The process is typically employed in forming an optical device such as a flat-panel cathode-ray tube display in which the openings in the primary layer receive light-emissive material.

Abstract: A color cathode-ray tube, and a method for manufacturing this color cathode-ray tube capable of reducing light/dark line patterns produced while the color cathode-ray tube is operated. Exposing light which has passed through a correction lens made of a continuous lens and a discontinuous lens is irradiated onto a photosensitive film of an inner surface of a face panel of the color cathode-ray tube via a shadow mask so as to expose this photosensitive film, and then while using the exposed photosensitive film as a mask, fluorescent dot patterns are formed on a surface of the face panel. The correction lens having a discontinuous plane owns a plurality of light incident planes, a light projection plane for projecting the light entered into the light incident planes outside this light projection plane, and a plurality of level difference planes arranged between the light incident planes located adjacent to each other.

Abstract: Adherence of the phosphor screen to the face panel of a color cathode ray tube is improved by placing a UV-reflective filter on the inside of the face panel prior to photolithographic forming of the screen, in order to reflect transmitted UV light back onto those areas from which the light emerged, thereby effectively increasing the exposure dosage of those areas.

Abstract: A luminescent composition which is a uniform admixture of a least one phosphor having a particle size of about "one-half" micrometers or less and at least one sol gel compound in an amount sufficient to substantially encapsulate the phosphor. Luminous devices are formed by disposing this composition on a substantially transparent substrate. The use of particulate phosphors in an encapsulating medium protects the phosphor and provides dielectric strength or conduction as required. Improved luminous devices for displays and lighting are provided such as those finding use as flat panel displays and for backlights for liquid crystal flat panel displays.

Abstract: The pigment dispersion composition having a good dispersibility, a good transparence and an anti-coating properties, which contains 0.5 to 50 parts by weight of an inorganic pigment, at least one type of dispersant selected from the group consisting of a sodium salt, an ammonium salt and an amine salt of an acrylic resin, an acryl copolymer resin, a polycarbonic acid, a condensation product of aromatic formalin sulfonate, and water or a solvent miscible with water.

Abstract: A field emission display device is arranged to improve the (luminance and the contrast and have a fluorescent screen for preventing a fluophor from being stripped off a substrate. The field emission display device includes a cathode electrode, the fluophors excited by electrons emitted by the cathode electrode, an anode electrode to which a given anode voltage is to be applied, and a metal film formed on the fluophors. The metal film is formed to have a thickness in the range of 2.times.10.sup.-6 E<t<2.times.10.sup.-5 E+0.02, where t is a thickness of the metal film and E is a voltage to be applied onto the anode electrode.

Abstract: A display screen for a cathode ray tube has an adjustable transmission curve in the visible spectral range of (.lambda.) between 380 to 780 nm. The display screen includes: a glass containing an oxide compound and being recyclable by melting under oxidizing conditions and without changing its characteristics and its color; the display screen having a transmission between 70% and 90% and at least one coating applied to the glass; the coating including the oxide compound; and/or, the coating including a component which forms an oxide compound in a melt of coated display screens which oxide component is likewise contained in the glass; and/or, the coating further including TiQ.sub.2 ; and/or, the coating further including titanium or compounds of titanium from which TiO.sub.

Abstract: After adhesive resin is applied to a surface of a flat panel, a front panel is glued thereto. One side of the front panel is contacted to the adhesive resin layer with the front panel tilted toward the surface of the flat panel. Then, the front panel is moved slowly to be close and parallel to the front panel. Finally, the front panel is pressed to the surface of the flat panel. Afterward, the adhesive resin is hardened. It is preferable that the thickness of the adhesive resin applied to the surface of the flat panel is decreasing from the side to which the side of the front panel is contacted, to the opposite side. By the above-mentioned method, an image display apparatus having multilayer structure comprising of a flat panel for displaying image, an adhesive resin layer and a front panel can be manufactured efficiently.

Abstract: A color filter composition, a color display device, and a production method of the same with which an increase of the luminance, an increase of the contrast, an increase in the range of color reproduction, and an improvement of the function for preventing reflection of outside light can be achieved. The color filter composition has a spectral characteristic allowing specific light of the visible region to pass therethrough and is composed of fine particles of an inorganic metal oxide containing 15 percent by weight or less of particles having a particle size of 0.1 .mu.m or more based on the weight of all of the particles and contains 70 percent by weight or more of particles having a particle size of 0.01 .mu.m to 0.07 .mu.m based on the weight of all of the particles. A color filter is formed on an inner surface of a panel of a display device by screen printing or heat transfer printing by using this color filter composition.

Abstract: A color display device is provided with a black-matrix layer, a phosphor pattern and color-filter layers. The theological behavior of the suspension and/or the evaporation of volatile constituents is influenced by the topology of the color-filter layers, with, in particular, projecting color-filter layers exerting an influence. As a result, variations in thickness between the phosphor layers occur. By reducing the differences in height between a projecting color-filter layer and the black-matrix layer, the variations in thickness between the phosphor layers are reduced and hence the quality of the picture displayed is improved.

Abstract: A color display device for emitting, in operation, red, blue and green light having a substrate provided with a black matrix and only blue and red color filter layers.

Abstract: A fluorescent screen display panel includes selectively deposited fluorescent material on a plurality of color-coated transparent electrodes that are formed on a base member. A spacer support layer is formed on the base member between groups of the color-coated transparent electrodes and a further electrode is formed on the spacer support layer. The further electrode is not coated with fluorescent material. Spacer members that support a display panel are also formed on the spacer support layer.

Abstract: A display screen, in particular a flat display screen, having a glass face plate with a transparent electrode layer of a metal oxide, for example indium-doped tin oxide (ITO), a phosphor layer and an adhesive intermediate layer of an alkali silicate between the electrode layer and the phosphor layer.

Abstract: A phosphor screen (10) formed of respective color phosphor layers (9R), (9G), (9B) and respective color filter layers (4R), (4G), (4B) is formed on the inner surface of the panel (1). In that case, the respective color filter layers (4R), (4G), (4B) are respectively formed between the inner surface of the panel (1) and the phosphor layers (9R), (9G) and (9B). Therefore, the color cathode ray tube can be made high in contrast and in brightness.

Abstract: The pigment dispersion composition having a good dispersibility, a good transparence and an anti-coating properties, which contains 0.5 to 50 parts by weight of an inorganic pigment, at least one type of dispersant selected from the group consisting of a sodium salt, an ammonium salt and an amine salt of an acrylic resin, an acryl copolymer resin, a polycarbonic acid, a condensation product of aromatic formalin sulfonate, and water or a solvent miscible with water.

Abstract: A black matrix color cathode-ray tube includes red, green, and blue luminescent patterns, wherein each of the red luminescent patterns has a wider area than each of the green and the blue luminescent patterns. The red, the green, and the blue luminescent patterns may be either of stripe or of dot shape. Preferably, the green and the blue luminescent patterns have a common area. More preferably, each green luminescent pattern has a wider area than each blue luminescent pattern. The cathode-ray tube displays one of red, green, and blue colors even when ones of the red, the green, and the blue luminescent patterns are selectively excited concurrently with others of the red, the green, and the blue luminescent patterns undesirably excited.

Abstract: Disclosed are an ultrafine particle film which is effective for the prevention of an electrostatic charge and reflection and can be applied to a large area at a low cost, a cathode ray tube to which the ultrafine particle film is applied, and image display plate to which the ultrafine particles is applied, and a process for producing the ultrafine particle film which comprises attaching a coating solution bath to a Braun tube surface and the like, introducing a containing solution containing anti-reflection SiO.sub.2 ultrafine particles and antistatic SnO.sub.2 ultrafine particles, and elevating up or down on the Braun tube surface and the like at a constant rate.

Abstract: A screen for a beam index tube includes a fluorescent surface having a pattern of color stripes respectively producing red, green, and blue light in unit areas within the stripes in response to an incident electron beam and index unit areas regularly arranged in the pattern, the color stripes being arranged side-by-side and along a vertical direction with color unit areas of vertical stripes being in registration along a horizontal direction, each color unit area being spaced in the horizontal and vertical directions from the nearest color unit area by one unit area, and the index unit areas being disposed among the color unit areas and spaced from the nearest index unit area by three unit areas in the horizontal direction and one unit area in the vertical direction. A beam index tube may include the screen in combination with a tube assembly and an electron gun.

Abstract: A multi-level conductive matrix structure for separating rows and columns of sub-pixels on the faceplate of a flat panel display device. In one embodiment, the present invention is formed partially of a first plurality of conductive ridges which are disposed on the faceplate between respective adjacent rows of sub-pixel regions. The present invention is further formed of a second plurality of conductive ridges which are orthogonally oriented with respect to and integral with the first plurality of conductive ridges such that a matrix structure is formed. In the conductive matrix of the present invention, the second plurality of conductive ridges have a height which is greater than the height of the first plurality of conductive ridges such that a multi-level conductive matrix is formed.

Abstract: A high efficiency field emission display, and a method for manufacturing such a display, having reduced driver circuit requirements, and which may be operated over a range of anode voltages while efficiently using existing phosphors, is described. A field emission display having a baseplate and an opposing face plate, includes a glass plate acts as a base for the faceplate. There is a patterned layer, having openings, of black matrix material over the glass plate. A plurality of phosphorescent elements are formed in and adjacent to the openings in the black matrix layer. A metal film overlays a portion of the top surface of each of the phosphorescent elements. The metal film may be patterned in a mesh or in other shapes, and provides for the highly efficient operation of the display of the invention. The baseplate, formed on a substrate, is mounted opposite and parallel to the faceplate, and has a conductive layer over the substrate.

Abstract: The brightness of a color CRT with a pigmented phosphor screen is improved by providing a composite layered screen in which a first layer of the composite layer is a relatively thin, heavily pigmented layer and a second is non-pigmented.

Abstract: A color display screen having a coating which comprises at least a greend an/or a red phosphor as well as at least a pigment having the following composition:Ga.sub.a In.sub.b Zn.sub.c Al.sub.d O.sub.n S.sub.m Se.sub.o Te.sub.pwherein0.05<a<1.95 0.0.ltoreq.n<0.30.05<b<1.95 2.1<m.ltoreq.30.00.ltoreq.c<0.09 0.0.ltoreq.o<0.30.00.ltoreq.d<0.2 0.0.ltoreq.p<0.3and n+m+o+p=3 and a+b+2/3c+d=2, yields a high-contrast and low-reflection picture, because the pigmentation in accordance with the invention is self-luminescent and its solid-solution properties enable its absorption properties to be accurately adapted to the emission spectrum of the phosphor. The solid solutions having the composition Ga.sub.a In.sub.b Zn.sub.c Al.sub.d O.sub.n S.sub.m Se.sub.o Te.sub.p are characterized by steep absorption edges in the yellow-orange spectral range and by a high absorptivity. This permits thin pigment-containing layers and small quantities of pigment to be used.

Abstract: A flat-panel display device comprising a substrate, a patterned layer and an absorbing layer, the absorbing layer interposed between the substrate and the patterned layer, the patterned layer being formed of a material having a rate of erosion greater than the rate of erosion of the substrate under powder spraying, and the absorbing layer being of a material capable of absorbing the kinetic energy of particles comprising a powder spray.

Abstract: An electron collector having an anode constituted by a substrate (21, 40, 41) on which are deposited conductive strips or tracks (23, 43). A dielectric material layer is deposited on at least one of the edges of each conductive strip.

Abstract: A high molecular weight, i.e., molecular weight of 90,000-750,000, conductive polymer soluble in both water and alcohol is mixed with a solution of water, alcohol, tetraethoxysilane (TES), and nitric acid (HNO.sub.3) to provide an antistatic coating for a glass display panel of a cathode ray tube (CRT) for grounding static charge on the panel. Conductive polymers such as of polyaniline mixed with either polystyrene sulfonic acid or polyacrylic acid in a molecular ratio of 1:1 or 3,4 polyethylenedioxythiophene added to polystyrenesulphonate in a molecular ratio of 1:1 form a conductive complex which when mixed with a solution of water, alcohol, TES and HNO.sub.3 provides a coating solution with a resistivity in the range of 10.sup.7-10.sup.9 ohm/cm.sup.2 on the outer surface of the CRT display panel.

Abstract: An anode (5) for a flat display screen includes at least one group of phosphor strips (7) deposited over corresponding electrode strips (17) separated one from another by an insulating layer (8) etched out in front of the phosphor strips (7), and at least one conductor (21) interconnecting the electrode strips (17) of the group of phosphor strips (7). Each of the electrode strips (17) is formed by a resistive strip (18) for receiving one phosphor strip (7) and at least one biasing strip (19) which is parallel to and joins the interconnecting conductor (21). The biasing strip (19) has a low resistivity with respect to the resistivity of the associated resistive strip (18). The biasing strip (19) is parallel to, laterally borders, and is in contacting engagement with the resistive strip (18). The anode (5) eliminates the risk of electrical arcs between the anode (5) and gate (3) or between adjacent phosphor strips (7) of the anode (5), without impairing the brightness of the screen.

Abstract: A fluorescent display tube has high visibility because reflection of Al of an anode conductor is prevented. A black film 3 formed on the inner surface of a substrate 2 is formed such that an inorganic metal containing compound is changed into a metal oxide by heat treatment, and consists of a TaO.sub.2 --, Tl.sub.2 O--, SnO--, or (Mn, Cu)--based oxide. An SiO.sub.2 film 4 serving as an alkali-shielding film is formed on the inner surface of the substrate 2 to cover the black film 3. An anode conductor 5 consisting of Al is formed on the SiO.sub.2 film 4. The anode conductor 5 is constituted of a frame member 6 and a stripe-shaped display unit 7 with transparency. The frame member 6 is behind the black film. The display unit 7 is partitioned by the inner edge of the gap between the black films 3. A phosphor layer 8 is formed on the display unit 7. A cross layer 9 is formed to cover the SiO.sub.2 film 4.

Abstract: The present invention concerns a cathode ray display tube in which the layers of a scattered electrons suppressing material are formed on the surface of a metal back layer on a phosphor layer and the inner surface of a funnel part. Each of the scattered electrons suppressing material layers on the surface of the metal back layer and on the inner surface of the funnel part is formed with an amount per unit area within specific ranges. The scattered electrons suppressing material layer is provided to form a laminated layer which is composed of lamina shaped graphite particles with a diameter which is ten times or more as large as a thickness and an average particle size in terms of spherical volume not more than 2 .mu.m. The scattered electrons suppressing material layers reduce unnecessary light emission due to scattered electrons and improve the contrast of a display image. A projection display system providing a display image with high contrast can be constituted by using the cathode display tubes.

Abstract: A color display screen comprising a coating which contains at least a green and/or a red phosphor and at least a pigment having the composition Zn.sub.3-3x In.sub.2xy Ga.sub.2x-2xy S.sub.3, wherein 0.2<x<0.97 and 0.1<y.ltoreq.1.0, yields a high-contrast and low-reflection picture, because the solid-solution properties of the pigmentation in accordance with the invention enable its absorption properties to be accurately adapted to the emission spectrum of the phosphor. The solid solutions having the above-mentioned composition are characterized by steep absorption edges in the yellow-orange spectral range and by a high absorptivity. This permits thin pigment-containing layers and small quantities of pigment to be used.