The invention relates to a low-pressure
gas discharge lamp (10) for use in a scanning or blinking backlighting
system, the low-pressure
gas discharge lamp (10) comprising a luminescent layer (20) comprising a
luminescent material selected from a group comprising: (Sr1-x-y-z, Bax, Cay, Eu(II)z)2Si04 (also known as XSO), (Sr1-x-y-z, Bax, Cay, Eu(II)z)Si2N2O2 (also known as XSON), and (Sr1-x-y-z, Bax, Cay, Eu(II)z)2Si5N8 (also known as XSN), wherein 0=x<1, 0=y<, 0<z=0.20, and x+y+z=l. The luminescent materials according to the invention have a relatively short
decay time (less than 0.5 milliseconds), resulting in a relatively short
afterglow time of the low-pressure
gas discharge lamp (10) according to the invention. When using known low- pressure gas
discharge lamps, for example, comprising the luminescent materials BAM, LAP and YOX in the scanning or blinking backlighting
system, the
afterglow time of these luminescent materials creates visible
motion artifacts, especially when the scanning or blinking time is increased from 50
Hertz or 60
Hertz to, for example, 90
Hertz or 100 Hertz. Replacing the known luminescent materials LAP and / or YOX with
luminescent material according to the invention will result in a reduction of the
motion artifacts.