Phosphor Ceramics for High-power Solid-state Lighting

Xinglin PENG; Shuxing LI; Zehua LIU; Xiumin YAO; Rongjun XIE; Zhengren HUANG; Xuejian LIU

doi:10.15541/jim20200652

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