title: Enhanced forward efficiency of Y3Al5O12:Ce3+ phosphor from white light-emitting diodes using blue-pass yellow-reflection filter.
abstract: This paper reports a simple approach for the design of blue-excitation-light passing and phosphor-yellow-emission-light reflecting dielectric multilayers to recycle the backward emission of Y(3)Al(5)O(12):Ce(3+) (YAG:Ce) yellow phosphors on top of a blue InGaN light-emitting diode (LED) cup. The insertion of modified quarter-wave films of alternate high- and low-refractive index dielectric films (TiO(2)/SiO(2)) into the interface between a YAG:Ce phosphor layer and glass substrate resulted in 1.64 and 1.95 fold increase in efficiency and luminous efficacy of the forward white emission compared with that of a conventional phosphor on top of a blue LED cup with a lower correlated color temperature (< 4000 K).
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Kookmin University, Seoul 136-702, Korea.
authors.forename: Jeong Rok
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Oh
authors.forename: Sang-Hwan
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Cho
authors.forename: Yong-Hee
authors.initials: YH
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Young Rag
authors.initials: YR
authors.lastname: Do
mesh_terms: D003116:Color; D017076:Computer-Aided Design; D004735:Energy Transfer; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D005374:Filtration / Q000295:instrumentation*; D008029:Lighting / Q000295:instrumentation*; D012031:Refractometry / Q000295:instrumentation*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012666:Semiconductors; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity