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Influence of sample thickness and concentration of Ce dopant on the optical properties of YAG:Ce ceramic phosphors for white LEDs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 September 2014

Katja Waetzig ,
Michael Kunzer  and
Isabel Kinski
Katja Waetzig*
Affiliation:
Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic Technologies and Systems (IKTS),Department of Precursor-Derived Ceramics and Composites, Dresden 01277, Germany
Michael Kunzer
Affiliation:
Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics (IAF), Business Unit Semiconductor Lasers and LEDs, Freiburg D-79108, Germany
Isabel Kinski
Affiliation:
Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic Technologies and Systems (IKTS), Department of Precursor-Derived Ceramics and Composites, Dresden 01277, Germany
*
a)Address all correspondence to this author. e-mail: katja.waetzig@ikts.fraunhofer.de
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Abstract

Translucent, polycrystalline YAG:Ce disks with 0.1, 0.5, and 1 mol% concentrations of cerium as well as different resulting thicknesses of 0.5 and 0.8 mm were prepared by reaction sintering of yttria, alumina, and cerium oxide under vacuum at a temperature of 1800 °C. The obtained samples displayed a microstructure with a Y3Al5O12 main phase interrupted by an intended scattering phase of alumina. Furthermore, the total forward transmittance was between 75 and 78% with the typical absorption bands of cerium at wavelengths of 330 and 460 nm. Phosphor conversion light-emitting diodes (LEDs) with 0.88 W power dissipation have been prepared from these YAG:Ce ceramic disks as converters and blue 455 nm LED chips for excitation. Their color coordinates in the CIE (Commission Internationale de l’Eclairage) diagram determined by spectral photometry depend on the concentration of the Ce dopant and the ceramic converter thickness. The highest luminous flux of 276 lm with an efficiency of 76.6 lm/W was measured for a converter with 0.5 mol% dopant concentration and 0.8 mm thickness emitting a yellowish white light.

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ceramicopticaltransparentphosphorLED
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Journal of Materials Research , Volume 29 , Issue 19: Focus Issue: Optical Ceramics Science , 14 October 2014 , pp. 2318 - 2324
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2014 

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