QDs. [14][15][16][17] However, they have less than optimal optical properties due to nonradiative recombination by defects. [12,18] As a result, despite the safety issues, Cdbased QDs are still attracting much attention and are seen as promising candidate materials for versatile applications in nonbiological environments owing to their outstanding performance with respect to tunable luminescence across the ultraviolet-visible-near-infrared (UV-vis-NIR) region, broad absorption bands with narrow emission bands, high quantum yields, [19] chemical stability, and photostability. [20,21] It is important to note that QDs have been passivated with higher bandgap semiconductor layers, such as ZnS and CdS, to increase the quantum yield. In the core-shell type QDs, the shell provides physical and chemical stabilities, as well as photostability to the core QDs, which is important for minimizing cytotoxicity, and also offers platforms for ligand exchange and further functionalization. [22] White light-emitting diodes (WLEDs) are commonly fabricated by combining inorganic phosphors with a blue or UV LED. [23,24] However, it is not easy to achieve a tailored and fullspectrum white light with currently available phosphors. The light spectra emitted by phosphor-based WLEDs are tuned by adjusting weight ratios of phosphors with different emission wavelengths. QDs behave like phosphors but their emissive colors are controlled by varying the size and composition. QDs have emerged as a good alternative to the phosphors in LEDs.
Quantum dots (QDs) can be integrated into a solid-phase color converter (SCC) for white light-emitting diodes (WLEDs). However, the development of QD-based SCCs is prevented by the limitations of the QDs themselves, nonuniform dispersion or aggregation of the QDs, and heat accumulation by low thermal conductivity of the solid matrix. Herein, the development of new high-quality CdZnSeS/ZnS QDs in a one spot synthesis is reported that have high photoluminescence quantum yield (up to 100% for green wavelengths), narrow emission spectra (full width at half maximum< 27.3 nm), and good color tunability in the green region, 496-586 nm. Seven different color QDs are used to fabricate liquid-phase color converters (LCCs) for application in WLEDs with a remote configuration. The best LCC-based WLEDs show not only intense bright day white light (correlated color temperature = 6029 K) with a maximum luminous efficacy of 222.7 lm W −1 , but also excellent color quality (color rendering index = 95.1, as well as R9 = 94.4, and R13 = 97.1), which is very important in medical diagnostic lighting, dressing and display room lighting, painting and accent lighting. These results indicate remarkable progress both in the synthesis of high-quality QDs and in the development of WLEDs for high-performance commercial lighting devices.The ORCID identification number(s) for the author(s) of this article can be found under https://doi.org/10.1002/admt.201800235.Semiconductor nanocrystals, namely quantum dots (QDs) have created many innova...