Synthesis and luminescence properties of reddish-orange-emitting Ca2GdNbO6:Sm3+ phosphors with good thermal stability for high CRI white applications

Novel reddish-orange-emitting Ca₂GdNbO₆:Sm³⁺ phosphors based on the emission of ⁴G_5/2 → ⁶H_9/2 transition at 651 nm with the chromatic coordinate of (0.633, 0.366) were synthesized. The crystal structure and chemical purity were identified in detail. Under the 407 nm excitation, the optimum concentration of Sm³⁺ ion was found to be 5 mol% dominated by the dipole-dipole interaction in the Ca₂GdNbO₆ host material. The color purity of the sample with optimum doping was estimated to be about 78.38%. Besides, the thermal stability was also studied, and it was further found that the emission intensity remained 65.32% at 423 K. The packaged white LED device exhibited excellent CRI and CCT values of 92.43 and 4896 K. Finally, the polydimethylsiloxane film with a stable structure and flexible property was prepared. These above results reveal that novel reddish-orange-emitting Ca₂GdNbO₆:Sm³⁺ phosphors can be applied in high CRI white communication and flexible display applications.     

基于汉风色典的不同色差公式的色差均匀性

为给纺织行业在纺织品贸易和质量控制等方面优选色差公式提供参考,研究了3个重要的和1个最新色差公式的色差均匀性,借助国际上色样多、视觉等距性好的汉风色典,利用X-Rite测色仪测试近2万个色样的色度参数,然后分别从向度、彩度、浓度3个方向选取3万多对相邻色样,采用MatLab编程计算4种色差并统计分析其均值、不匀率和性能因子。结果表明:不同方向不同评价指标所得结果不尽相同;在色差均匀性方面,CAM16-UCS最好,CIEDE2000_(2∶1∶1)略优于CMC_(2∶1),且二者明显优于CIELAB;在色差大小方面由小到大依次为CIEDE2000_(2∶1∶1)、CMC_(2∶1)、CAM16-UCS、CIELAB。     

Spectroscopic investigations on high efficiency deep red-emitting Ca2SiO4:Eu3+ phosphors synthesized from agricultural waste

Europium doped calcium orthosilicate (Ca₂SiO₄) phosphors have been synthesized by the conventional high temperature solid-state reaction method in various concentrations from agricultural waste (egg shell as a CaO and rice husk as a SiO₂). These phosphors structure from X-ray diffraction and morphology from scanning electron microscopy have been examined. Concentration dependent Eu³⁺ ions luminescent properties in Ca₂SiO₄ phosphors have been studied from the excitation, emission and decay curves analysis. The ⁵D₀ → ⁷F_J transitions observed in luminescence spectrum allows to determine the site symmetry of the Eu³⁺ ion. A charge transfer band (CTB) at around 260?nm which is due to the Eu–O interaction in the host along with the 4f – 4f excitation bands due to Eu³⁺ ions in UV and blue regions are observed. The color co-ordinates determined from emission spectra varies with concentrations of Eu³⁺ ions and are found to fall in the red region. The decay curves show single exponential behavior for all concentrations of Eu³⁺ ions (0.01–0.4?mol%) and the lifetimes varied from 2.67 to 2.78?ms. It is worth noting that the present material is found to be far better than many red phosphors synthesized by using agricultural waste as raw materials.     

Effect of the composition and degree of crosslinking on the properties of poly(l‐lactic acid)/crosslinked polyurethane blends

Poly(l ‐lactic acid)/crosslinked polyurethane (PLLA/CPU) blends which were prepared via reactive blending of PLLA with poly(?‐caprolactone) (PCL), glycerol and 4,4′‐methylenediphenyl diisocyanate showed excellent toughness. The effects of the composition of the mixture and degree of crosslinking of CPU on the toughness of the PLLA/CPU blends (80/20 w/w) were studied in detail. Dynamic mechanical analysis and rheological measurements were used to characterize the structure of the in situ formed CPU in the PLLA matrix. A novel netlike phase structure was observed when the average molecular weight of PCL and degree of crosslinking were 1 kDa and 10%, respectively. The impact strength of the blend was enhanced from 2.2 kJ m^?2 for pure PLLA to 62.4 kJ m^?2; meanwhile, the elongation at break was increased to 489.8%. Therefore, the mechanical properties of PLLA/CPU blends can be easily tailored by tuning the composition of the mixture and the degree of crosslinking of CPU. © 2018 Society of Chemical Industry     

Optoelectronic sensor device for monitoring the maceration of red wine: Design issues and validation

Enologists usually rely on spectrophotometers to perform the chromatic characterization of red wines. This work reports an optoelectronic instrument based on absorbance measurements aiming not only at the assessment of the chromatic characteristics of finished red wines, but at the supervision of the gradual maceration of fermenting grape musts as well. Maceration is a chemical process that takes place during the early stages of the fermentation that finally results in red wine. It is through maceration that wine acquires its distinctive chromatic features. Key issues related to the selection of optoelectronic components, the system design and its final validation using diluted wine samples are thoroughly discussed. Resolution figures lie in the range of one thousandth of an absorbance unit. Maceration has been successfully monitored with the proposed instrument using grape must samples extracted during the first three days from two different fermentations.     

Robust skin detection in real-world images

Human skin detection in images is desirable in many practical applications, e.g., human–computer interaction and adult-content filtering. However, existing methods are mainly suffer from confusing backgrounds in real-world images. In this paper, we try to address this issue by exploring and combining several human skin properties, i.e. color property, texture property and region property. First, images are divided into superpixels, and robust skin seeds and background seeds are acquired through color property and texture property of skin. Then we combining color, region and texture properties of skin by proposing a novel skin color and texture based graph cuts (SCTGC) to acquire the final skin detection results. Comprehensive and comparative experiments show that the proposed method achieves promising performance and outperforms many state-of-the-art methods over publicly available challenging datasets with a great part of hard images.     

An ideal host-guest system to accomplish high-performance greenish yellow and hybrid white organic light-emitting diodes

Greenish yellow organic light-emitting diodes (GYOLEDs) have steadily attracted researcher's attention since they are important to our life. However, their performance significantly lags behind compared with the three primary colors based OLEDs. Herein, for the first time, an ideal host-guest system has been demonstrated to accomplish high-performance phosphorescent GYOLEDs, where the guest concentration is as low as 2%. The GYOLED exhibits a forward-viewing power efficiency of 57.0 lm/W at 1000 cd/m², which is the highest among GYOLEDs. Besides, extremely low efficiency roll-off and voltages are achieved. The origin of the high performance is unveiled and it is found that the combined mechanisms of host-guest energy transfer and direct exciton formation on the guest are effective to furnish the greenish yellow emission. Then, by dint of this ideal host-guest system, a simplified but high-performance hybrid white OLED (WOLED) has been developed. The WOLED can exhibit an ultrahigh color rendering index (CRI) of 92, a maximum total efficiency of 27.5 lm/W and a low turn-on voltage of 2.5 V (1 cd/m²), unlocking a novel avenue to simultaneously achieve simplified structure, ultrahigh CRI (>90), high efficiency and low voltage.     

旋挖钻机设备油液智能分析与健康监测

为了对直升机盒段件入水载荷进行分析，开展了模型垂直入水冲击试验，同时采用有限元-光滑粒子流体动力学（finite element method-smooth particle hydrodynamics，简称FEM-SPH）耦合数值方法进行仿真分析，计算了不同材料构型和速度下的过载、压力及应变结果。与试验结果进行对比表明，仿真结果与试验值吻合较好，预测的结构失效破坏模式与试验结果基本一致，可为真实直升机入水冲击的结构设计提供参考。     

A next-generation wide color gamut WLED with improved spectral performance in phosphor composite functional solid

As is well known, a way to obtain a high color resolution and saturation of a liquid crystal display and thereby obtain a higher visual accuracy and comfort in the coming 5G era remains an urgent challenge. In the present study, a new type of phosphor composite material doped with Ln³⁺ ions provides a promising alternative to the color filters used in White light-emitting diodes (WLEDs), achieving a better performance regarding the realization of a wider color gamut. The advantages of this composite material are illustrated through an abundant phase and morphology analysis along with a discussion regarding the X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy of the valence bond of Ce ions, which maintain the luminescence properties of the phosphor while providing a stable and solid amorphous environment. An improved spectral performance was obtained through color filtering at 580 nm along with the regulating effects of red, green, and blue emissions according to the doped Ln³⁺ ions. Notably, we fabricated a high-performance WLED based on a Ln³⁺-doped PiG with a correlated color temperature of 5037 K, color rendering index of 72.8, and high color gamut of 91.97%, providing a new choice for the development of luminescence materials with a high color resolution and saturation.