Nitride phosphors have been widely used in phosphor-converted white-light-emitting diodes (pc-wLEDs) since they exhibit broad-band excitation and emission, tunable spectrum, high luminescence efficiency, outstanding stability, and low pollution. 1,2 Rare-earth ions activated nitride phosphors with characteristic highly dense (Al/Si)N 4 tetrahedron show long wavelength emissions due to high covalence of the host crystal and large crystal field splitting of the Eu 2+ 5d level. 3 A series of Eu 2+-activated nitride red-emitting phosphors, which provide a high color rendering index for wLEDs, 4,5 have been developed recently, such as (Ca,Sr) AlSiN 3 :Eu 2+ , 6 Sr 2 Si 5 N 8 :Eu 2+ , 7 Sr[LiAl 3 N 4 ]:Eu 2+ , 8 et al So far, CaAlSiN 3 :Eu 2+ (CASN:Eu 2+) phosphor has gained much more attention as down-conversion luminescent material due to its high quantum efficiency and chemical stability. However, the wider applications in high power white-lightemitting diodes (HP-wLEDs), whose operated current density becomes more than 10 times with respect to ordinary wLEDs, have raised more demanding requirements for excellent thermal stability of phosphors. 9 Therefore, enhancing thermal stability of CASN:Eu 2+ is an important materials challenge. At present, some methods have been developed to enhance thermal stability of CASN:Eu 2+ phosphor. Li et al synthesized a series of rare-earth doped Ca 1-x Al 1-x Si 1+x N 3-x O x samples with the inspiration of the solid solution strategy, and the