Tunable chromaticity and high color rendering index of WLEDs with CaAlSiN <sub>3</sub> :Eu <sup>2+</sup> and YAG:Ce <sup>3+</sup> dual phosphor‐in‐silica‐glass
Ping Huang, Yuye Zhao, Jiancheng Wang, Ya-Ru Zheng, Peng Yang, Qi Zheng, Shijia Gu, Beiying Zhou, Wan Jiang, Lianjun Wang
Abstract
Abstract Phosphors‐in‐glass (PiG), which serves as a potential bi‐replacement of both phosphors and organic encapsulants in high‐power white light‐emitting diodes (WLEDs), has captured much attention due to its high thermal stability and excellent luminescent properties. However, due to the high‐temperature sensitivity and the chemical reactions between phosphors with glass matrix, a variety of phosphors, especially red phosphors could be hardly dispersed into the glass without thermal quenching and decomposition, which greatly limits the improvement of color rendering index and chromaticity tunability of the WLEDs. In this study, adopting the mesoporous silica (FDU‐12) and commercial phosphors as raw materials, the phosphors‐in‐silica‐glasses (PiSGs) embedded with red phosphor CaAlSiN 3 :Eu 2+ and yellow phosphor YAG:Ce 3+ have been successfully prepared at low sintering temperature (950°C) and short preparation time (10 minutes) using spark plasma sintering. Owing to the well preservation of the originally emissive properties of the embedded phosphors, the warm WLEDs with tunable chromaticity and exhibited a superior performance with LE of 133 lm/W, CCT of 3970 K and CRI of 81 were fabricated by encapsulating the as‐prepared PiSGs on the blue chips. Moreover, the PiSG composite exhibits a high thermal conductivity up to 1.6 W/m·K.