Multifunctionality of vanadate garnet phosphors in latent fingerprint detection, security inks, and dual-mode temperature sensing.

Rare earth (RE) ions activated inorganic phosphors with multi-color emissions have received considerable attention because of their emerging applications in solid-state lighting, backlight displays, lasers, biomedical imaging, and so on. This tutorial review concerns the design principles for Eu2+ Eu3+ red-emitting solids highlights influencing factors on luminescence performance. Based recent ...