A novel multi-center activated single-component white light-emitting phosphor for deep UV chip-based high color-rendering WLEDs

Single-component white light-emitting phosphors for phosphors-converted WLEDs are a hot spot of solid-state lighting field. Dy3+ is a promising candidate for white light generation in single-component hosts; however, the inappropriate ratio of yellow light to blue and the lack of red light restrict its applications in full-color display and indoor lighting. Here, a novel multi-center activated single-component white light-emitting phosphor, Sr2LaGaO5:Dy3+,Sm3+, has been designed and synthesized. It is surprisingly found that there is no evident energy transfer between the host and the dopants even though they satisfy the rule of spectral overlap, which can be explained from the special structure of the phosphor. The co-excitation of the host and the dopants would be a facile strategy to finely tune the luminescent spectra of phosphors. By adjusting the doping concentrations of Dy3+ and Sm3+, we can control the relative intensities of the emissions peaked at 493 nm and 574 nm from Dy3+, 604 nm from Sm3+ and the broadband within the range of 400 – 500 nm from the host. Therefore, the emission color of the co-doped phosphors can be tuned from white light to orangish red region with correlated color temperature decreasing from 5708 K to 1971 K. A WLED device with extremely high color-rendering index (Ra) up to 91.4 was fabricated by coating the synthesized phosphor with a deep UV LED chip. And it is the first time to use a single-component white light-emitting phosphor co-activated with Dy3+ and Sm3+ in deep UV chip excited WLEDs with high Ra.