Provided is a nitride phosphor with high emission intensity. The nitride phosphor includes: a group 1 element(s) including at least one selected from the group consisting of lithium, sodium, and potassium; a group 2 element(s) including at least one selected from the group consisting of magnesium, calcium, strontium, and barium; a group 13 element(s) including at least one selected from the group consisting of aluminum, gallium, and indium; a group 14 element(s) including at least one selected from the group consisting of silicon, germanium, and tin; nitrogen; and cerium. The nitride phosphor includes, as a host crystal, a crystal having the same crystal structure as CaAlSiN.sub.3, wherein the internal quantum efficiency upon excitation at 450 nm is not less than 87%.

The present invention encompasses materials and methods for catalyzing the cross-linking and curing of siloxane polymers. In particular, the present disclosure provides materials, methods, and conditions for vapor phase catalysis for curing organosiloxane polymers and resins, including resin linear organosiloxane block copolymers, as well as the incorporation of those methods into processes for making light emitting devices, including light emitting diodes.

A light emitting device includes a Chip Scale Packaged (CSP) LED, the CSP LED including an LED chip that generates blue excitation light; and a photoluminescence layer that covers a light emitting face of the LED chip, wherein the photoluminescence layer comprises from 75 wt % to 100 wt % of a manganese-activated fluoride photoluminescence material of the total photoluminescence material content of the layer. The device/CSP LED can further include a further photoluminescence layer that covers the first photoluminescence and that includes a photoluminescence material that generates light with a peak emission wavelength from 500 nm to 650 nm.

A method for obtaining at least one particle, including: (a) preparing solution A including at least one precursor of at least one of Si, B, P, Ge, As, Al, Fe, Ti, Zr, Ni, Zn, Ca, Na, Ba, K, Mg, Pb, Ag, V, Te, Mn, Ir, Sc, Nb, Sn, Ce, Be, Ta, S, Se, N, F, and Cl; (b) preparing aqueous solution B; (c) forming droplets of solution A; (d) forming droplets of solution B; (e) mixing droplets; (f) dispersing mixed droplets in a gas flow; (g) heating dispersed droplets to obtain the at least one particle; (h) cooling the at least one particle; and (i) separating and collecting the at least one particle. The aqueous solution is acidic, neutral, or basic. In step (a) and/or step (b) at least one colloidal suspension of a plurality of nanoparticles is mixed with the solution. Also, a device for implementing the method.

A phosphor having a favorable emission peak wavelength, narrow full width at half maximum, and/or high emission intensity is provided. Additionally, a light-emitting device, an illumination device, an image display device, and/or an indicator lamp for a vehicle having favorable color rendering, color reproducibility and/or favorable conversion efficiency are provided. The present invention relates to a phosphor including a crystal phase having a composition represented by a specific formula, and when, in a powder X-ray diffraction spectrum of the phosphor, the intensity of a peak that appears in a region where 2θ=38-39° is designated as Ix and the intensity of a peak that appears in a region where 2θ=37-38° is designated as Iy, the relative intensity Ix/Iy of Ix to Iy is 0.140 or less, and a light-emitting device comprising the phosphor.

According to one embodiment, a white light source includes a combination of a light emitting diode and phosphors. One of the phosphors is at least a cerium activated yttrium aluminum garnet-based phosphor. There is no light emission spectrum peak at which a ratio of a largest maximum value to a minimum value is greater than 1.9. The largest maximum value is largest among at least one maximum value present in a wavelength range of 400 nm to 500 nm in a light emission spectrum of white light emitted from the white light source. The minimum value is adjacent to the largest maximum value in a longer wavelength side of the light emission spectrum.

A phosphor plate includes a plate-like composite including an inorganic base material, which is a sintered material of two or more types of metal oxide including SiO.sub.2, and a phosphor contained in the inorganic base material, in which the phosphor includes an α-type sialon phosphor, and in a case in which intensity of transmitted light at a wavelength of 455 nm and intensity of reflected light at a wavelength of 455 nm of the phosphor plate are denoted by T1 and R1, respectively, T1 and R1 satisfy 1.5×10.sup.−2≤T1/R1≤5.0×10.sup.−2.

A light emitting device is disclosed. In an embodiment a light-emitting device includes a pixel comprising at least three sub-pixels, wherein the at least three sub-pixel include a first sub-pixel including a first conversion element, wherein the first conversion element includes a green phosphor, a second sub-pixel including a second conversion element, wherein the second conversion element includes a red phosphor and a third sub-pixel free of a conversion element, wherein the third sub-pixel is configured to emit blue primary radiation, wherein each sub-pixels has an edge length of at most 100 μm, and wherein the pixel is a linear chain of sub-pixels and a plurality of pixels is arranged in a two dimensional ordered pattern so that a first sub-pixel is never adjacent to a third sub-pixel in a vertical direction and in a horizontal direction of the ordered pattern.

A cadmium free quantum dot not including cadmium and including: a semiconductor nanocrystal core comprising indium and phosphorous, a first semiconductor nanocrystal shell disposed on the semiconductor nanocrystal core and comprising zinc and selenium, and a second semiconductor nanocrystal shell disposed on the first semiconductor nanocrystal shell and comprising zinc and sulfur, a composition and composite including the same, and an electronic device.

Provided is a semiconductor nanoparticle complex dispersion liquid in which semiconductor nanoparticles are dispersed in a polar dispersion medium at a high mass fraction, and in which high fluorescence quantum efficiency (QY) is maintained. A semiconductor nanoparticle complex dispersion liquid according to an embodiment includes a semiconductor nanoparticle complex dispersed in an organic dispersion medium, wherein: the semiconductor nanoparticle complex is composed of two or more ligands including an aliphatic thiol ligand and a polar ligand, and a semiconductor nanoparticle with the ligands coordinated to the surface thereof; the ligands are composed of an organic group and a coordinating group; the organic group of the polar ligand includes a hydrophilic functional group; and an SP value of the organic dispersion medium is 8.5 or more.