Thermally Stable Encapsulation Material Based on Green and Red Lanthanide Phosphor for White Light Emitting Diodes

Abstract

This study reported thermal stability of hybrid sol-gel encapsulation materials doped with lanthanides complexes for generating white light. Red and green lanthanide phosphor, Eu (tta)3phen and Tb (4DBBA)3TPPO were incorporated into VTES:TEOS hybrid sol-gel and dispensed into 360 nm to 390 nm UV LED packages. Thermal properties of developed encapsulation material were analysed by TGA. A thermal aging test up to 96 hours was done to check the stability of developed encapsulation material towards UV LED junction temperature of 120°C and the luminescence properties changes was observed using photoluminescence measurement. To check the encapsulation material stability on forward voltage, the operation voltage has been increased from 3.0V to 4.0V. The photometric measurement were recorded using integrating sphere for the properties of Colour Rendering Index (CRI), colour temperature and Commission Internationale de L’Eclairge (CIE) colour coordinates. Based on the results, developed encapsulation material produced white colour with CIE colour coordinate of (0.32, 0.35), CRI up to 75 and colour temperature around 6000K.