Versatile fluorescent CaGdAlO4:Eu3+ red phosphor for latent fingerprints detection
JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS
Authors: Park, Jin Young; Chung, Jong Won; Park, Sung Jun; Yang, Hyun Kyoung
Abstract
Latent fingerprint detection is one of the promising technique in forensic science. Here, an oxide based red-emitting phosphors, CaGdAlO4:Eu3+ (CGA:Eu3+), have been successfully synthesized by a solvothermal reaction method. The structural phase was characterized with the XRD Rietveld refinement and TEM analyses. The luminescence properties and dynamics of Eu3+ in CGA were studied in detail by room temperature emission, excitation and decay curve measurements. Intense red emission peaking at 620 nm due to D-5(0 )-> F-7(2) transitions of Eu3+ under the excitation at 283 nm was obtained and the optimal Eu3+ ion concentration was found to be about 7 mol%. The CIE chromaticity coordinate evaluated from the PL spectra and exhibited (0.6410, 0.3581) coordinates within the pure red region of the CIE 1931 diagram with a close proximity to the commercial red phosphor (Y2O2S:Eu3+). Furthermore, with the use of the CGA:7Eu(3+) phosphors, the developed latent fingerprint fluorescent images were well visualized and identified their level 1, 2 and 3 details with high contrast, selectivity and sensitivity. These results indicate that CGA:7Eu(3+) has great potential for practical applications in the latent fingerprint detection. (C) 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Foundations of Conic Conformal Geometric Algebra and Compact Versors for Rotation, Translation and Scaling
ADVANCES IN APPLIED CLIFFORD ALGEBRAS
Authors: Hitzer, Eckhard; Sangwine, Stephen J.
Abstract
This paper explains in algebraic detail how two-dimensional conics can be defined by the outer products of conformal geometric algebra (CGA) points in higher dimensions. These multivector expressions code all types of conics in arbitrary scale, location and orientation. Conformal geometric algebra of two-dimensional Euclidean geometry is fully embedded as an algebraic subset. With small model preserving modifications, it is possible to consistently define in conic CGA versors for rotation, translation and scaling, similar to Hrdina et al. (Appl Clifford Algebras 28(66), 1-21, 10.1007/s00006-018-0879-2, 2018), but simpler, especially for translations.