Liquid Type Nontoxic Photoluminescent Nanomaterials for High Color Quality White-Light-Emitting Diode

Chih-Hao Lin1, Yung-Min Pai1, Chun-Fu Lee1

  • 1Department of Photonics, National Chiao Tung University, 1001 University Road, Hsinchu, 300, Taiwan.

Nanoscale Research Letters
|December 23, 2018
PubMed

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