Leuchtstoffwerk Breitungen Gmbh

Bundesdruckerei Gmbh

Sven Roesler

Manfred Paeschke

Detlef Starick

Christian Kunath

Monika Voh

Cheng-Jun Duan

Jakob Kuen

Andreas Deichsel

The present invention relates to a zinc sulphide phosphor and to a process for producing same. The invention further relates to a security document or document of value, to a security feature and to a method for detecting same. The phosphor according to the invention can act as electroluminescent phosphor and thus be excited by an electrical field, and this can result in emission of electroluminescent light in the blue and/or green color region of the visible spectrum. The phosphor can moreover be excited by UV radiation in the wavelength range than 345 nm to 370 nm, and can thus emit photoluminescent light in the blue color region of the visible spectrum. The phosphor can moreover be excited by UV radiation in the wavelength range from 310 nm in 335 nm, and can thus emit photoluminescent light in the green color region of the visible spectrum.

Zinc sulphide phosphor having photo- and electroluminescent properties, process for producing same, and security document, security feature and method for detecting same

This invention is related to efficient inorganic borophosphate phosphors which can applied in various technical applications such as fluorescent lamps, colored light or white light emitting diodes, and other devices where phosphors are used to convert especially near UV radiation into the visible light. Further, this invention is related to light sources comprising the efficient borophosphate phosphor. The inventive phosphor absorbs radiation in a first wavelength range of the electromagnetic spectrum and emits radiation in a second wavelength range of the electromagnetic spectrum. This phosphor is a borophosphate activated with divalent rare earth metal ions.

Borophosphate phosphor and light source

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