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Introduction
Sources and process
- Luminescence and incandescence
- Luminescent pigments and dyes
Early investigations
Phosphorescence and fluorescence
Luminescence excitation
- Chemiluminescence and bioluminescence
- Triboluminescence
- Thermoluminescence
- Photoluminescence
- Electroluminescence
- Radioluminescence
Luminescent materials and phosphor chemistry
- Sulfide-type phosphors, activators, fluxes
- Oxide-type phosphors
- Centres, activators, coactivators, poisons
- Organic luminescent materials
- Photoradiation in gases, liquids, and crystals
Luminescence physics
- Mechanism of luminescence
- Spontaneous and stimulated emission
- Solid-state energy states
- Efficiency of luminescence; luminance

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