Fully Phosphor-Converted LEDs with Lumiramic™ Phosphor Technology
2010
Fully phosphor-converted LEDs (FpcLeds) with saturated emission have been realized in the green and amber spectral
region. With the Lumiramic phosphor technology it is possible to achieve high package efficiency with minimum
transmission of blue light from the primary LED source. This is done by keeping the scattering properties of the
phosphor layer low while the phosphor thickness is chosen to fully convert all blue LED emission. It is shown that this
can be done not only for optically isotropic Lumiramic materials like garnets, but also for oxonitridosilicate materials
like the green emitting Europium doped SrSi 2 O 2 N 2 , crystallizing in a triclinic lattice with three optical axes. The
scattering power of the Lumiramic can be decreased to acceptable levels by increasing the size of the crystallites in the
densely sintered ceramics. Light propagation is found to be described well with Mie scattering of mono-sized SrSi 2 O 2 N 2
spheres with refraction index differing by 0.07 to the refractive index of a SrSi 2 O 2 N 2 matrix material. Using this
technology, the green-yellow gap of visible light emitting LEDs can be bridged and color tunable lamps with the
efficiency and flux of today's white phosphor-converted LEDs become feasible.
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