into visible light. Phosphor plays an important role in determining the performance of white LEDs, such as, their color rendering, luminous effi ciency, lifetime, and so on. [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14] A number of promising phosphors have already been explored and their suitability for white LEDs has been demonstrated. In particular, nitride phosphors have drawn much attention due to their high chemical and high thermal stability. [15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31] At the operating temperature of current white LEDs (ca. 150 °C), nitride phosphors can maintain 80-90% of the room temperature luminescence intensity, [ 18,[21][22][23][24][25] and some of them can even reach 95% at 200 °C. [ 31 ] Nitride phosphors are usually synthesized via solid-state reaction (SSR), gas reduction and nitridation (GRN), carbothermal reduction and nitridation (CRN), or high-pressure ammonothermal methods. [ 21,22 ] These synthesis techniques are often complex, require expensive and moisture-sensitive raw materials, a long processing time at a high temperature (1400-2000 °C), and a high nitrogen or ammonia pressure (100 MPa), leading to very high costs associated with the production of these phosphors. It is therefore necessary to search for novel phosphors with high effi ciency and low thermal degradation that can be synthesized easily.In this work, we report on a novel orthosilicate phosphor, Ba 9 Lu 2 Si 6 O 24 :Ce 3+ , which is synthesized by a simple SSR process at a relatively low reaction temperature of 1400 °C. The optical properties of this phosphor are comparable with those of nitride phosphors. Ba 9 Lu 2 Si 6 O 24 :Ce 3+ exhibits a main excitation band around 400 nm, which matches the emission light of near-UV chips. Under this excitation, it shows a green emission band around 490 nm with a width of 120 nm. Its internal quantum effi ciency (QE) can be as high as 82% with an absorbance of 0.60, resulting in an external QE of about 50%, which is equivalent to that of most nitride phosphors. Moreover, this green phosphor shows a very high thermal stability, and its luminescence intensity at 160 °C preserves nearly 94% of the initial luminescence intensity at room temperature. This is very superior to that of most nitride phosphors. In this paper, the synthesis and the crystal structure analysis of Ba 9 Lu 2 Si 6 O 24 are reported. The origins of the excellent thermal stability are also investigated by using classical thermal quenching theory.Among the inorganic phosphors used in advanced solid-state lighting technologies, nitridosilicates have drawn signifi cant attention because of their superior photoluminescence properties with high effi ciency and high thermal stabilities. However, the synthesis of nitride phosphors usually requires strict processing conditions and a long processing time, leading to very high manufacturing costs. Herein, a novel orthosilicate green phosphor, Ba 9 Lu 2 Si 6 O 24 :Ce 3+ , is synthesized via a simple solid-state reaction. The photoluminescence char...