LumiLab

Welcome

The LumiLab research group is a part of the department of Solid State Sciences at Ghent University. We study the various aspects of luminescence, from theoretical understanding over phosphor synthesis to applications such as LED phosphors and photocatalysis.

On our website, you can read the latest news and info, get to know our group members, find out about the facilities available in our research groups, view a list of our most important publications, and find out how and where to contact us.

We wish you a pleasant stay on our site, and hope to meet you soon in our laboratory!

-- The LumiLab team

Latest news

PhD obtained by Nursen Avci

Friday, February 24, 2012

Today, Lumilab member Nursen Avci successfully defended her PhD thesis 'Sol-gel processes for protection and synthesis of luminescent materials'. Congratulations!

Feature issue of "Optical Materials Express" on persistent phosphors

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Following the Phosphoros 2011 conference on persistent phosphors, participants to the conference were invited to submit a paper to the journal "Optical Materials Express". Papers are now being published in a feature issue on Persistent Phosphors, which can be found here.

Special issue "Luminescent Materials 2011" of the open access journal "Materials"

Friday, July 8, 2011

Our research group is actively involved (both as guest editor and contributor) in the special issue on luminescent materials of the open access journal Materials . The issue is now closed. Published papers are freely available online, and can be found here.
Update (Jan 2012): "Materials" is now indexed in the Web of Science.

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Latest publications

An X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy study of BaAl₂S₄ thin films

Philippe F. Smet, Jo E. Van Haecke, Roland Vanmeirhaeghe, Dirk Poelman

Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena 148 (2005) 91-95

(Co, Nb, Sm)-Doped tin dioxide varistor ceramics sintered using nanopowders prepared by coprecipitation method

Hajieh Bastami, Ehsan Taheri-Nassay, Philippe F. Smet, Katleen Korthout, Dirk Poelman

Journal of the American Ceramics Society 94 (2011) 3249-3255

Advances in sulfide phosphors for displays and lighting

Dirk Poelman, Jo E. Van Haecke, Philippe F. Smet

Journal of Materials Science - Materials in Electronics 20 (2009) 134-138

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Featured group member

Katleen Korthout

PhD student, working on the properties of luminescent materials by extended X-ray absorption fine structure (exafs). She likes sudokus and movies.