Phosphor

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While currently white light is achieved by phosphor down-conversion, LED color mixing actually has a higher theoretical maximum efficiency, which is needed in order to achieve the 2035 DOE energy efficiency goals.

From Science Daily • Jan. 23, 2024

The phosphor technique is sound, says Ram Seshadri, a materials science professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

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