U.S. Philips Corporation

Frans H Vollebregt

Joachim F Opitz

Friederike Picht

Jacqueline Merikhi

Michael Bredol

Hans-Otto Jungk

Miguel Boutelje

Jan W De Bakker

Arlis G Van Braam

The invention relates to a display screen having a phosphor layer of a phosphor composition of a phosphor coated with an oxygen compound of one of the elements magnesium, calcium, barium, zinc and aluminium, and with colloidal SiO.sub.2 having an average particle size of 70 nm.ltoreq.d.ltoreq.130 nm. The invention further relates to a phosphor composition of a phosphor coated with an oxygen compound of one of the elements magnesium, calcium, barium, zinc and aluminium, and with colloidal SiO.sub.2 having an average particle size of 70.ltoreq.d.ltoreq.130 nm, and to a method of manufacturing the phosphor composition.

Phosphor composition with a coating of colloidal SiO.sub.2 particles and

A display screen having a phosphor coating comprising a phosphor composition of a phosphor provided with a coating which comprises one or more oxgyen compounds of the elements zinc, aluminium, magnesium, calcium and barium as well as colloidal SiO.sub. particles, said colloidal SiO.sub.2 particles being composed of SiO.sub.2 particles having an average size of 4 nm.ltoreq.d.ltoreq.30 nm, corresponding to a specific surface of 100 m.sup.2 /g.ltoreq.A.sub.s .ltoreq.550 nm m.sup.2 /g, and SiO.sub.2 particles having an average size of 50 nm.ltoreq.d.ltoreq.150 nm, corresponding to a specific surface of 25 m.sup.2 /g.ltoreq.A.sub.s .ltoreq.70 m.sup.2 /g.

Phosphor composition comprising fine-grain and coarse-grain SiO.sub.2

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Frans H Vollebregt