Development of UV-LED Phosphor Coatings for High Efficiency Solid State Lighting

The University of Georgia, in collaboration with GE Global Research, is investigating the relevant quenching mechanism of phosphor coatings used in white light devices based on UV LEDs in a focused eighteen month program. The final goal is the design of high-efficacy white UV-LEDs through improved and optimized phosphor coatings. At the end of the first year, we have reached a fundamental understanding of quenching processes in UV-LED phosphors and have observed severe quenching in standard devices under extreme operating conditions. Relationships are being established that describe the performance of the phosphor as a function of photon flux, temperature, and phosphor composition. These relationships will provide a road map for the design of efficient white light LEDs during the final six months of the project

Longitudinal phase space manipulation in energy recovering linac-driven free-electron lasers

Energy recovering an electron beam after it has participated in a free-electron laser (FEL) interaction can be quite challenging because of the substantial FEL-induced energy spread and the energy anti-damping that occurs during deceleration. In the Jefferson Lab infrared FEL driver-accelerator, such an energy recovery scheme was implemented by properly matching the longitudinal phase space throughout the recirculation transport by employing the so-called energy compression scheme. In the present paper,after presenting a single-particle dynamics approach of the method used to energy-recover the electron beam, we report on experimental validation of the method obtained by measurements of the so-called "compression efficiency" and "momentum compaction" lattice transfer maps at different locations in the recirculation transport line. We also compare these measurements with numerical tracking simulations.Comment: 31 pages, 13 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. Special Topics A&

SPECTRAL-SPATIAL DIFFUSION OF PHONONS

Une étude sur la propagation des phonons à une fréquence près de 1 THz dans un cristal d'Al2O3 est présentée. Le cristal contenait des ions (V4+ et Cr2+), qui donnaient lieu à des processus de diffusion résonante-élastique et inélastique. Nous avons effectué nos expériences à l'aide d'un laser infrarouge. Les phonons ont été générés à une fréquence et optiquement détectés à une autre fréquence. Nos résultats montrent l'existence de la diffusion spatiale et spectrale des phonons. On présente aussi une analyse théorique, qui permet de déterminer les coefficients de la diffusion spatiale et spectrale.We have studied propagation of phonons with frequencies near 1 THz in an Al2O3 crystal that contained resonance-elastic and inelastic scattering centers (V4+ and Cr2+ impurity ions). By use of a pulsed far infrared laser, monochromatic phonons were generated at one frequency and detected optically at another frequency. Our results indicate that spectral and spatial phonon diffusion occurred. A theoretical analysis is presented which allows to determine spectral and spatial diffusion coefficients

Longitudinal electron bunch diagnostics using coherent transition radiation

The longitudinal charge distribution of electron bunches in the Fermilab/NICADD photoinjector was determined using the coherent transition radiation produced by electrons passing through a thin metallic foil. The autocorrelation of the transition radiation signal was measured with a Michelson-type interferometer. The response function of the interferometer was determined from measured and simulated intensity spectra for low electron bunch charge and maximum longitudinal compression. Both pyroelectric and Golay detectors were used for these measurements. A Kramers-Kronig technique was used to determine longitudinal charge distribution. Measurements were performed for electron bunch lengths in the range from 0.3 to 2 ps (rms). To test the accuracy of this interferometric method, the longitudinal charge distribution was measured for double-peaked electron bunches with known distance between the two pulses. The agreement between measured bunch length and simulation is within 30%

Luminescence and Photoconductivity of Cerium Compounds

The study of the luminescence properties of rare earth doped systems historically focuses on systems which exhibit strong luminescence. More recently, extensive studies on materials with high quantum efficiency are in part motivated by the search for new phosphor and scintillator materials. However, a thorough study of certain systems which show very low quantum yield will certainly lead to a better understanding of phosphor materials and rare earth systems in general. As an example of recent studies which address both the fundamental question of relaxation processes in rare earth doped systems and phosphor applications we present studies on cerium-doped lutetium oxide crystals which are characterized by a complete quenching of the 5d-4f luminescence and compare its optical properties to that of very efficient cerium doped phosphor material, lutetium oxyorthosilicate. To find the mechanisms which lead to the different quantum efficiency in these systems, extensive absorption, photoexcitation and photoconductivity studies were performed on single crystals. We demonstrate that the radically different emission properties of the investigated systems originate in small but crucial differences in the location of the emitting 5d level of the cerium ion with respect to the conduction band of the host - a general result which can be applied to a broad range of materials