Solid-state Lightning

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PHOTONIC HYBRIDS AND NANOMATERIALS GROUP

Aveiro-Portugal

university of aveiro

theoria poiesis praxis

physics department

ciceco

aveiro institute of materials

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WHITE LIGHT EMITTERS Current challenges in white light-emitting diodes (WLEDs) encompass high luminous efficiency, chromatic stability, high colour rending index and price competitiveness. From the materials science point of view, the main challenge is to develop a new metal activator-free compound with high emission quantum yield, CRI>80, and thermal stability. Examples include the development of few-nm thick boehmite nanoplates capped with in situ-formed benzoate ligands that yield the production of WLED whose optical properties overwhelming state-of-the-art single-phase WLEDs phosphors, and white organic light-emitting diode (WOLED) made from a mixed lanthanide (Eu3+/Tb3+) b-diketonate complex, whose colour is tunable by adjusting the layer thickness and the bias voltage. In parallel with the interest in WLEDs we have also been focused on the development of pure emission colour LEDs with potential application as phosphor materials for UV LEDs.

PEOPLE

Rute A.S. Ferreira

Luís D. Carlos

Lianshe Fu

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

X. Bai, G. Caputo, Z. Hao, V. T. Freitas, J. Zhang, R. L. Longo, O. L. Malta, R. A. S. Ferreira, N. Pinna, "Efficient and tuneable photoluminescent boehmite hybrid nanoplates lacking metal activator centres for single-phase white LEDs" Natt. Comm. 5, 5702 (2014), http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms6702

White light-emitting diodes (WLEDs) are candidates to revolutionize the lighting industry towards energy efficient and environmental friendly lighting and displays. The current challenges in WLEDs encompass high luminous efficiency, chromatic stability, high colour-rending index and price competitiveness. Recently, the development of efficient and low-cost downconverting photoluminescent phosphors for ultraviolet/blue to white light conversion was highly investigated. Here we report a simple route to design high-efficient WLEDs by combining a commercial ultraviolet LED chip (InGaAsN, 390 nm) and boehmite (γ-AlOOH) hybrid nanoplates. Unusually high quantum yields (ηyield=38–58%) result from a synergic energy transfer between the boehmite-related states and the triplet states of the benzoate ligands bound to the surface of the nanoplates. The nanoplates with ηyield=38% are able to emit white light with Commission International de l’Eclairage coordinates, colour-rendering index and correlated colour temperature values of (0.32, 0.33), 85.5 and 6,111 K, respectively; overwhelming state-of-the-art single-phase ultraviolet-pumped WLEDs phosphors.

J. Graffion, X. Cattoën, V. T. Freitas, R. A. S. Ferreira, M. Wong Chi Man, L. D. Carlos, “Engineering of Metal-Free Bipyridine-Based Bridged Silsesquioxanes for Sustainable Solid-State Lighting”, J. Mater. Chem. 22, 671–6715 (2012); http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C2JM15225H

We demonstrate an improvement of the emission quantum yield and the luminance figures of merit of metal-free bridged silsesquioxanes—by a factor of 2, 0.43 ± 0.04, and by two orders of magnitude, (1.4 ± 0.1) × 104 cd m−2, respectively—by changing the regioisomer of the silylated precursor. The organic–inorganic hybrids are easily excited by commercial blue InGaN-based light emitting diodes displaying an intriguing potential to applications in green photonics as metal-free phosphors for solid state lighting.