Phosphors, Up Conversion Nano Particles, Quantum Dots and Their Applications

Professor Ru-Shi Liu is currently a professor at the Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University.  He received his Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from Soochow University (Taiwan) in 1981, and his Master’s degree in Nuclear Science from the National Tsinghua University (Taiwan) in 1983. He obtained two PhD degrees in Chemistry - one from National Tsinghua University in 1990 and one from the University of Cambridge in 1992. He worked at Materials Research Laboratories at the Industrial Technology Research Institute from 1983 to 1985. He was an Associate Professor at the Department of Chemistry of National Taiwan University from 1995 to 1999, and appointed a professor in 1999. His research focuses on the field of Materials Chemistry. He is the author or coauthor of more than 500 publications in scientific international journals, and holds more than 100 patents.

Introduction to the basic properties of luminescent materials.- Phosphors for White-light LEDs through Principle of Energy Transfer.- Energy Transfer Between Luminescent Centers.- Principles of Energetic Structure and Excitation Energy Transfer Based on High Pressure Measurements.- First-principles calculations of structural, elastic, electronic and optical properties of pure and Tm^2+-doped alkali-earth chlorides MCl₂ (M=Ca, Sr and Ba).- First-principles calculation of luminescent materials.- Color Tuning of Oxide Phosphors.- Oxide Phosphors.- Categories of Oxide Phosphors.- Crystal structures and Luminescence properties of oxyhalide-based phosphors.- Tuning of luminescence by varying the O/N or Al/Si ratio in some Eu-doped nitride phosphors.- Characteristics and properties of A(I,II)M(IV)F₆ fluoride phosphors.- Novel Phosphors for UVLEDs.- Bismuth doped photonic materials: are they promising phosphors for WLEDs?.- Design of single-phased multicolor-emission phosphor for LED.- Crystal Structure and Luminescence Properties of Some Fluorides, (Oxy)nitrides and Oxides Phosphors.