Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2013

Publication Title

Light: Science & Applications

DOI

10.1038/lsa.2013.6

Abstract

Phosphor-converted white light-emitting diodes for indoor illumination need to be warm-white (i.e., correlated color temperature K) with good color rendition (i.e., color rendering index >80). However, no single-phosphor, single-emitting-center-converted white light-emitting diodes can simultaneously satisfy the color temperature and rendition requirements due to the lack of sufficient red spectral component in the phosphors’ emission spectrum. Here, we report a new yellow Ba0.93Eu0.07Al2O4phosphor that has a new orthorhombic lattice structure and exhibits a broad yellow photoluminescence band with sufficient red spectral component. Warm-white emissions with correlated color temperature 80 were readily achieved when combining the Ba0.93Eu0.07Al2O4 phosphor with a blue light-emitting diode (440–470 nm). This study demonstrates that warm-white light-emitting diodes with high color rendition (i.e., color rendering index >80) can be achieved based on single-phosphor, single-emitting-center conversion.

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Light: Science & Applications articles are published either under a CC BY license(Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License). This license is preferred by many funding bodies and allows for maximum dissemination and re-use of open access materials. The CC BY-NC-ND and CC BY-NC-SA licenses are available on request: please see the journal's Open Access page for more information. Article obtained from Light: Science & Applications.

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