White Light-Emitting Diodes With Ultrahigh Color Rendering Index by Red/Green Phosphor Layer Configuration Structure

Currently, white light-emitting diodes (WLEDs) have been widely applied in lighting, display, and medical fields. However, there still exists the problem of low color rendering index (CRI, Ra). In this work, phosphor-converted WLEDs (pc-WLEDs) with ultrahigh Ra were fabricated using Y
₃
Al
₃
Ga
₂
O
₁₂
:Ce
³⁺
green phosphor and CaAlSiN
₃
:Eu
²⁺
red phosphor configuration structure. The broad emission spectrum of the green phosphor compensates for the gap of the cyan-emitting region that realizes full-spectrum white-light emission. The weight ratio of green/red phosphors was controlled to optimize the optical performances of pc-WLEDs. At the ratio of 0.15/0.012, the fabricated pc-WLED exhibits a natural white light with an ultrahigh R
_a
of 95.2 and an incredibly small International Commission on Illumination (CIE) chromaticity coordinates deviation (D
_uv
= -0.0034) at 350 mA. The corresponding correlated color temperature (CCT) and luminous efficiency (LE) are 4526 K and 62.34 lm/W, respectively. Furthermore, two separated phosphor configuration structures were constructed for pc-WLEDs. The R up/G down structure achieves the highest LE of 64.93 lm/W, and the corresponding CCT and R
_a
are 5714 K and 95.8, respectively, chiefly due to the compensation for reabsorption effect caused by the large difference in the luminous efficacy of radiation (LER) between dichromatic phosphors. The results demonstrate that by adjusting the phosphor configuration structure, the pc-WLEDs with high color rendering can be obtained, which have great applications in high-quality lighting.