Highly efficient all‐nitride phosphor‐converted white light emitting diode

The development and demonstration of a highly efficient warm‐white all‐nitride phosphor‐converted light emitting diode (pc‐LED) is presented utilizing a GaN based quantum well blue LED and two novel nitrogen containing luminescent materials, both of which are doped with Eu2+. For color conversion of the primary blue the nitridosilicates M2Si5N8 (orange‐red) and MSi2O2N2 (yellow‐green), with M = alkaline earth, were employed, thus achieving a high luminous efficiency (25 lumen/W at 1 W input), excellent color quality (correlated color temperature CCT = 3200 K, general color rendering index Ra > 90) and the highest proven color stability of any pc‐LED obtained so far. Thus, these novel all‐nitride LEDs are superior to both incandescent and fluorescent lamps and may therefore become the next generation of general lighting sources. (© 2005 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)

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