Near-ultraviolet chip-based phosphor-converted solar-spectrum white light-emitting diode

As efficient artificial light sources, nitride-based light-emitting diodes (LEDs) have been widely used. However, III nitride white light-emitting diodes (WLEDs) are mostly fabricated by combining a blue LED chip with yellow phosphors, which results in inevitable problems, such as low color-rendering index (CRI) and detrimental effect to human eyes. As a solution for healthy lighting, we report a strategy to produce a WLED with an emission spectrum perfectly matched with natural daylight. By utilizing near-ultraviolet LED chips and a mixture of blue/cyan/amber/red phosphors, a CRI (Ra) of 97.9 is achieved for the WLEDs at a correlated color temperature of around 5000 K. The resemblance ratio of these solar-spectrum WLEDs with the standard normalized daylight spectrum (5000 K) is found to as high as 93.4%. Residual UV light in the normalized spectrum is <5%. The method will benefit the development of high-efficiency healthy artificial light sources. (C) 2020 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE)