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International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE)
Vol. 10, No. 6, December 2020, pp. 6244~6250
ISSN: 2088-8708, DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v10i6.pp6244-6250  6244
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Enhance the chromatic uniformity and luminous efficiency of
WLEDs with triple-layer remote phosphor structures
Nguyen Thi Phuong Loan1
, Anh Tuan Le2
1
Faculty of Fundamental 2, Posts and Telecommunications Institute of Technology, Vietnam
2
Faculty of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Ton Duc Thang University, Vietnam
Article Info ABSTRACT
Article history:
Received Sep 28, 2019
Revised May 18, 2020
Accepted May 27, 2020
The angular color uniformity (ACU) with the ability to evaluate chromatic
performance of WLED has become an important target to achieve in
producing higher-quality WLEDs. This paper studies the ACU enhancing
effects of novel triple-phosphor configuration in lighting devices with remote
phosphor structure. Moreover, the optical influences of remote phosphor
structure with three phosphor layers (TL) on WLEDs properties are
calculated and compared to the dual-layer (DL) one for reference.
The experiments are applied to devices at 5 distinct correlated color
temperature ranging from 5600-8500 K. The results presented that DL
structure attains better color rendering index (CRI) than the TL one.
Meanwhile, in terms of color quality scales (CQS), TL model shows higher
values at all ACCTs, compared to the DL. Moreover, the luminous flux of
DL configuration is lower than that of TL structure. In addition, the diversion
of color temperature depicts as D-CCT in TL structure is much better than
the value in DL structure, especially at high ACCT as 8500 K, which means
TL is good for chromatic uniformity of high ACCTs WLEDs. These results
proved that the triple-layer structure is superior and more effective to apply
for acquiring the enhancement of WLEDs package.
Keywords:
Color rendering index
Dual-layer phosphor
Luminous efficacy
Mie-scattering theory
Remote-phosphor
Triple-layer phosphor
Copyright © 2020 Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science.
All rights reserved.
Corresponding Author:
Anh Tuan Le,
Faculty of Electrical and Electronics Engineering,
Ton Duc Thang University,
No. 19 Nguyen Huu Tho Street, Tan Phong Ward, District 7, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
Email: leanhtuan1@tdtu.edu.vn
1. INTRODUCTION
Due to the efficiency in lighting and energy-saving, the diodes with light radiating ability called
LEDs has soon recognized as potential lighting method. The applications of LEDs are spread out in many
different fields from general usage of street lighting, back-lighting to more advanced utilization in medical
and automobile [1-3]. To produce white light, the most common approach is to apply the combination of
chromatic lights which yielded from the blue LED chip and the phosphor that ejects light downward.
Such configuration is distinguished based on the appearance of phosphor component and known as phosphor-
converted LEDs (pc-LEDs). Although the procedure to apply phosphor on the structure and create pc-LEDs
are available which consists of the dispersing and conformal methods, these approaches all have drawbacks
that are detrimental to pc-LEDs quality. For instance, the luminous efficiency of WLEDs from these methods
are usually poor due to the light loss caused by back-scattering lights [4, 5]. Then, a configuration that separate
the phosphor material and blue light source was introduced to enhance light output and known as the remote
phosphor (RP) structure. The RP structure creates a gap between the components that helps reduce
the re-emission from phosphor, and therefore is able to enhance the optical properties of pc-LEDs [6, 7].
In addition, the RP configuration can reduce the absorption of back-scattered light by the LED chip,
thus promoting the reliability of WLEDs and decreasing the junction temperature [8-13].
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In recent years, the optical properties of RP LEDs have been significantly improved, especially their
luminous efficiency. However, their chromatic uniformity is still in low-quality, especially for planar RP
configurations [14-16]. In general, a diffuser sheet is a tool to maintain uniformity in allocation and radiation
of correlated color temperature (CCT). However, the results show the energy loss in the process of light
transmission through the sheet [17-19]. Though resulting in low light efficiency, these approaches get better
color uniformity. Besides, although angular color uniformity (ACU) can be adjusted through many different
configurations that have been proposed such as the patterned sapphire substrate (PSS) [19], the DBR
structure [20], and the dichroic filter that recycles light [21], but high expenses and complexity when
implement on an available illuminating network are the disadvantages of these configuration. Therefore, to
create a cost-efficient structure that is easy to integrate and has high color uniformity and luminous output,
the remote micro-patterned phosphor (RMPP) layer is proposed as the alternative for the standard flat RP
film in WLEDs. The RMPP layer is a structure with multiple layers where the flat RP film is laid in
the middle of the micro-patterned (MP) polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) layers. Adapting this idea, dual-layer
remote phosphor structures were proposed and investigated to achieve better optical performance. A dual-
layer RP is comprised of a yellow YAG:Ce3+
layer placed under a red or green phosphor one.
In 2017, Nhan and his partners reported that structure with red phosphor SrO.3B2O3:Sm2+
in the dual
remote phosphor can enhance light output by 17% in comparison to the conventional phosphor configuration.
Besides, in the stable concentration of red phosphor SrO.3B2O3:Sm2+
, the structure can achieve 5% higher
color rendering index (CRI) than the mixed phosphor WLEDs [22, 23]. However, this study just showed
the better results of CRI which is one of elements using to evaluate the color quality. Thus, it cannot
completely assure the benefit of this structure to color quality of WLEDs, though the luminous flux is better.
Another value called color quality scales (CQS) which includes CRI, viewer’s preference and color
coordinates is consider a more powerful index to evaluate the color quality of WLEDs. Thus, Lee et al.
introduced the two packages of dual-layer remote phosphor structures to enhance the lumen output, CRI and
CQS of WLEDs. One of them uses SrBaSiO4:Eu2+
green phosphor layer while the other uses red phosphor
SrwFxByOz: Eu2+
,Sm2+
layer to place above the yellow YAG:Ce3+
layer. The results showed that the green-
yellow structure can increase the green light component to better the luminous flux but it leads to a large
decline in color quality. Meanwhile, the red-yellow model has better rendering ability that expresses through
CRI, CQS and resulting in better color quality, although inferior in lumen efficacy. Besides, Anh’s team also
researched on the different shapes of phosphor layers in the structure which are the flat dual-remote phosphor
(FDRP) with planar layer and the concave dual-remote phosphor (CDRP) with indented layer. They finally
figured out that compared to CDRP structure, the FDRP can accomplished better luminous flux as the light
go through two phosphor layers more easily. They also suggested the suitable distances which are d1 = 0.08
mm or d2 = 0.63 mm to be the gap among the two phosphor layers and the led chip’s surface to achieve
highest luminous flux. However, they also reported a significant reduction in the color uniformity in both
cases. In general, dual-layer remote phosphor can enhance the optical properties of WLEDs, but it hard to
attain better luminous flux and color quality at the same time. Therefore, a triple-layer remote phosphor is
proposed to improve those aspects in LED production. A triple-layer remote phosphor structure consists of
three different phosphor layers: the yellow YAG:Ce3+
is placed at the bottom, covering the nine LED chips,
while the red phosphor film is located at the top and the green phosphor layer is the middle. That this
structure includes green and red phosphor, not only the green but also the red-light components are increases,
leading to the possibility of achieving both higher lumen output and color uniformity simultaneously. Hence,
this study will investigate the use of triple-layer remote phosphor to enhance the performance of WLEDs.
Moreover, comparisons between the effects of DL structure and TL structure on luminous flux, CRI and CQS
will be demonstrated to assured the benefits of the using three phosphor layers inside the LED packages. Thus,
we believe that the results from this paper are valuable information for manufacturers to produce WLEDs having
better performance.
The phosphor structure in this study is a triple remote phosphor with yellow YAG:Ce3+
, green
Ca2La2BO6.5:Pb2+
, and red Mg8Ge2O11F2:Mn4+
phosphor layers. The arrangement of studied contents is
preparation process of green and red phosphor and the organization of these phosphor layers will be presented in
section 2. Section 3 includes the mathematic system used to analyze the performance of the remote phosphor
layer, and discuses the attained results. Finally, the conclusion is demonstrated in section 4.
2. RESEARCH METHOD
2.1. Preparation of phosphor materials
The green phosphor Ca2La2BO6.5:Pb2+
is utilized to increase the internal green light component of
WLEDs, and thus enhancing the luminous output and color uniformity. Besides, the red-light component
inside WLEDs can be improved by using the red Mg8Ge2O11F2:Mn4+
phosphor, leading to higher values of
CRI and CQS. The preparations of these two phosphors are demonstrated as follows.
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To prepare Ca2La2BO6.5:Pb2+
phosphor, the steps must be put into a strict order. Initially,
the materials are mixed by using dry grinding or milling method. Next, they are fired in open quartz boats
with air flows, at about 500ºC. After that, the mixture goes through powderizing process. Then, it is put into
capped quartz tubes with N2, and fired for the second time under 1000ºC, in an hour. In the next step, this
material will be powderized again. Finally, it will go through the third firing process at 1200ºC with
the presence of N2 flows, for 1 hour.
For the preparation of Mg8Ge2O11F2:Mn4+
, the process is simpler as it consists of fewer steps than
that of Ca2La2BO6.5:Pb2+
phosphor. Firstly, the materials used in this process are mixed by dry ball-milling.
Secondly, the mixture is fired with air flows in capped quartz tubes at 1200ºC for 2 hours. Thirdly, the dry
ball-milling method is used to grind the fired substance into powder. Finally, the powder is re-fired in open
quartz boats at the same temperature 1200ºC for approximately 16 hours (overnight).
Before simulating Ca2La2BO6.5:Pb2+
and Mg8Ge2O11F2:Mn4+
phosphor, measurements of the materials
properties such as concentration, particle size, stimulation spectrum, absorption spectrum, and emission
spectrum must be ensured by experiments. However, among the measurements, we need to identify
the suitable concentration of phosphor and particle size to achieve the best index in chromatic performance
and lighting output. Meanwhile, the parameters of the phosphor spectrum are constants. Based on the results
from previous researches, the particles of phosphor have a width of 14.5 µm.
2.2. Simulation process
The cross-sectional schematics in Figure 1 are the illustration of LEDs packages used in
the research. Figure 1(a), 1(b), respectively provides visual presentation on the arrangement of WLEDs
package with glass cover, phosphor layers, a half-dome, and package with conformal coating. Specifically,
the blue areas indicate lighting-emitting chips, the chromatic lines represent the phosphor of
the corresponding color, and the empty spaces are the silicone matrix lenses. The substrate for the structure is
predetermined as aluminum nitride and the default yellow phosphor is YAG:Ce3+
.
(a) (b)
Figure 1. Illustration of multi-layer phosphor structures of white LEDs,
(a) dual-layer phosphor (DL) and (b) triple-layer phosphor (TL)
This density of the phosphors layers is predetermined at 0.08 mm. Besides, the concentration of
YAG:Ce3+
changes following the variation of the red or green or red phosphor concentration to maintain
the average correlated color temperatures (ACCTs). In addition, at each different ACCT of each phosphor
structure, the YAG:Ce3+
concentrations are diverse, which creates the diversity of scattering characteristic
inside WLEDs. Moreover, this discrepancy leads to the differences in optical properties.
It can be seen from Figure 2 that at all ACCTs, the yellow YAG:Ce3+
phosphor concentration in DL
structure higher than in TL structure. Considering the same ACCT in all structures, if the YAG:Ce3+
concentration is higher, there will be more back-scattering events, and the reduced emitted luminous flux is
higher. On the other hand, when the concentration of YAG:Ce3+
is raised, the imbalance among the three
primary colors that produce white lights, including yellow, red and green, will appear, leading to
the reduction in color quality. Hence, to advance the luminous flux and the chromatic quality of WLEDs,
the back-scattering needs to be reduced by increasing the red-light component. Besides, the chromatic
performance as well as the light output also under influences of green light. According to the mentioned
information, it seems that the triple-layer phosphor structure is the most advantageous one, in terms of
managing optical properties. In order to prove this assumption, the research team continues to provide other
essential references to the remote phosphor structures. In Figure 3 is the measured emission spectra in both
dual and triple-layer configurations. From the results, the emission spectrum of TL structure is higher than
DL structure at several wavelength ranges which suggests that pc-LEDs with three phosphor layers has better
lighting efficiency regardless of color performance.
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Figure 2. The concentration of yellow YAG:Ce3+
phosphor in each remote phosphor structure at each
different ACCT
Figure 3. Emission spectra of phosphor
configurations
3. RESULTS AND ANALYSIS
Figure 4 demonstrates the CRI measured from dual-layer (DL) and triple-layer (TL) remote
phosphor configurations that are used to research for phosphor influences. As can be seen, DL structure
shows higher CRI than the TL, regardless of ACCT. Moreover, CRI of DL structure rises along with each of
ACCT and reaches the highest value at ACCT of 8500 K. This result is one of the most vital references to
improve CRI for remote phosphor structures, especially, when controlling the CRI is hard to achieve at high
ACCT (over 7000 K). This structure is beneficial to the CRI because of the added red-light component from
the red Mg8Ge2O11F2:Mn4+
phosphor layer. Meanwhile, in terms of CRI, the TL structure is the runner-up.
Therefore, it can be assured that, with the objective as CRI, it is possible to choose DL structure in
mass-producing WLEDs. However, CRI is just one of the indexes used to evaluate the color quality. In recent
years, another parameter called CQS has become popular to many researches. CQS is a combination of
the three elements: CRI, viewers' preference, and chromaticity coordinate. Due to its cover of these three
factors, CQS has been a great goal of researchers and seemed to be the most crucial to evaluate
the chromaticity. In this study, the CQS of remote phosphor structures are compared in Figure 5. If the DL
has the highest CRI, the TL reaches the highest CQS, which can be explained by the balance among the three
colors red, yellow and green. The higher the CQS, the higher the color quality. Conversely, the CQS is found
lower in DL structure. In general, TL structure is advantageous to the luminous flux, but hard to manage
the color quality if there is no presence of the added red and green light components.
Based on Figure 5, it can be assured that if the goal of manufacturers is the color quality,
they should select TL structure. Nevertheless, the rising question is that if the chromatic quality is better,
is the luminous output affected? To figure out this question, the research team made a comparison of
the emitted luminous flux between the DL and TL configurations. The part below presents the mathematical
systems that were applied to determine results of blue light transmission and yellow light conversion in
the TL remote structure. The results are studied to confirm the enhancement of LED efficiency achieved from
this structure.
Figure 4. Color rendering indexes of phosphor
configurations corresponding to ACCTs
Figure 5. Color quality scale of phosphor
configurations corresponding to ACCTs
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The emitted blue light and yellow light from light conversion for remote phosphor structure
containing one phosphor layer with thickness described as 2h are expressed as follows [24, 25]:
𝑃𝐵2 = 𝑃𝐵0 𝑒−𝛼 𝐵2ℎ
𝑒−𝛼 𝐵2ℎ
= 𝑃𝐵0 𝑒−2𝛼 𝐵2ℎ
(1)
𝑃𝑌2 =
1
2
𝛽2 𝑃𝐵0
𝛼 𝐵2−𝛼 𝑌2
[𝑒−𝛼 𝑌2ℎ
− 𝑒−𝛼 𝐵2ℎ
]𝑒−𝛼 𝑌2ℎ
+
1
2
𝛽2 𝑃𝐵0
𝛼 𝐵2−𝛼 𝑌2
[𝑒−𝛼 𝑌2ℎ
− 𝑒−𝛼 𝐵2ℎ
]
=
1
2
𝛽2 𝑃𝐵0
𝛼 𝐵2−𝛼 𝑌2
[𝑒−2𝛼 𝑌1ℎ
− 𝑒−2𝛼 𝐵1ℎ
]
(2)
The emitted blue light and yellow light from light conversion for remote phosphor package
containing two phosphor layers with the layer thickness of h are measured with:
𝑃𝐵3 = 𝑃𝐵0. 𝑒−𝛼 𝐵2
2ℎ
3 . 𝑒−𝛼 𝐵2
2ℎ
3 . 𝑒−𝛼 𝐵2
2ℎ
3 = 𝑃𝐵0. 𝑒−2𝛼 𝐵3ℎ (3)
𝑃𝑌′
3 =
1
2
𝛽3 𝑃𝐵0
𝛼 𝐵3−𝛼 𝑌3
[𝑒−𝛼 𝑌3
2ℎ
3 – 𝑒−𝛼 𝐵3
2ℎ
3 ]𝑒−𝛼 𝑌3
2ℎ
3 +
1
2
𝛽3 𝑃𝐵0 𝑒
−𝛼 𝐵3
2ℎ
3
𝛼 𝐵3−𝛼 𝑌3
[𝑒−𝛼 𝑌3
2ℎ
3 − 𝑒−𝛼 𝐵3
2ℎ
3 ]
=
1
2
𝛽3 𝑃𝐵0
𝛼 𝐵3−𝛼 𝑌3
[𝑒−𝛼 𝑌3
4ℎ
3 − 𝑒−2𝛼 𝐵3
4ℎ
3 ]
(4)
𝑃𝑌3 = 𝑃𝑌′
3. 𝑒−𝛼 𝑌3
2ℎ
3 + 𝑃𝐵0.𝑒−2𝛼 𝐵3
4ℎ
3
1
2
𝛽3
𝛼 𝐵3−𝛼 𝑌3
[𝑒−𝛼 𝑌3
2ℎ
3 − 𝑒−𝛼 𝐵3
2ℎ
3 ]
=
1
2
𝛽3 𝑃𝐵0
𝛼 𝐵3−𝛼 𝑌3
[𝑒−𝛼 𝑌3
4ℎ
3 – 𝑒−𝛼 𝐵3
4ℎ
3 ]𝑒−𝛼 𝑌3
2ℎ
3 +
1
2
𝛽3 𝑃𝐵0 𝑒
−𝛼 𝐵3
4ℎ
3
𝛼 𝐵3−𝛼 𝑌3
[𝑒−𝛼 𝑌3
2ℎ
3 − 𝑒−𝛼 𝐵3
2ℎ
3 ]
=
1
2
𝛽3 𝑃𝐵0
𝛼 𝐵3−𝛼 𝑌3
[𝑒−𝛼 𝑌3ℎ
− 𝑒−2𝛼 𝐵3ℎ
]
(5)
The h depicts the phosphor layer density. The subscript “1” and “2” note the single layer and
double-layer remote phosphor configurations. β is the conversion coefficient for blue light converting to
yellow light. γ is the reflection coefficient of the yellow light. The intensities of blue light (PB) and yellow
light (PY) are results obtained from light intensity of blue LED, indicated by PB0. αB; αY are indices
describing the loss of transmitted energy in blue and yellow lights during their scattering process in their
respective phosphor layer. Besides, in subscript “4”, PY’3 is the amount of yellow light that has passed two
phosphor materials.
In TL remote structure pc-LEDs, there is a notable improvement in lighting efficiency when
compared to a dual-layer one that can be seen from the following:
(𝑃𝐵3−𝑃𝑌3)−(𝑃𝐵2+𝑃𝑌2)
(𝑃𝐵2+𝑃𝑌2)
>
𝑒
−2𝛼 𝐵3
ℎ
−𝑒
−2𝛼 𝐵2
ℎ
𝑒
−2𝛼 𝑌3
ℎ
−𝑒
−2𝛼 𝐵2
ℎ> 0 (6)
The Mie-theory is used in the analysis of scattering of phosphor particles. Moreover, through
the following expression that applied the Mie theory, the scattering cross section Csca for circular particles is
obtained. In addition, the efficiency of light power transmission can be defined with Beer’s law [25]:
I = I0 exp(-µextL) (7)
The I0 in this equation is the energy of incident light, L represents the density of phosphor layer (mm) and µext
is the extinction coefficient, which are measured by: µext = Nr.Cext, where Nr is as the number density
distribution of particles (mm-3
). Cext (mm2
) is the extinction cross-section of phosphor particles.
In (6) proved three phosphor layers is more beneficial to the luminous flux than two layers. This is
demonstrated in details with Figure 6. Specifically, TL structure shows higher lumen output than the DL does
at all ACCTs. This erases suspicions about the benefits that TL brings to the luminous flux though it has
the best color quality. In other words, TL structure can enhance both chromatic uniformity and lumen
efficiency simultaneously. This finding can be explained by the higher emission intensity of TL in
the wavelength range of 500 nm-600 nm, compared to that of DL, due to a larger reduction in the YAG:Ce3+
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phosphor concentration to keep the ACCT. At that time, the TL structure can reduce the internal
back-scattering lights, leading to the blue light from LED chips can easily transmit through YAG:Ce3+
layer
to other layers. In other words, TL structure helps the blue light power from LED chips to be converted
effectively. Thus, compared to DL model, TL structure achieves higher emission spectrum intensity in
the wavelength band of white light, resulting in better performance in its luminous flux. Hence, the TL
structure can be chosen due to its superior in optical properties of WLEDs, including CQS and LE.
There are various methods to improve the color uniformity, which is an important element for color
quality, such as scattering enhancement particles SiO2, CaCO3, etc., or conformal phosphor structure.
When applying the green Ca2La2BO6.5:Pb2+
phosphor and red Mg8Ge2O11F2:Mn4+
phosphor, the scattering
properties and chromatic light components inside WLEDs are increased, leading to generating better white
light. Additionally, utilizing the remote phosphor structure can promote the emitted luminous flux due to
the reduction in the back-scattering of light to the LED chip. Although these two approaches can improve
the color uniformity, the luminous flux seems to decrease. Therefore, the phosphor concentration needs to be
adjusted to an appropriate amount to achieve the highest power transmission, which can be proven by
the Lambert-Beer law in (7). In Figure 7 is the comparison of color deviation between DL and TL structures.
As can be seen, the color deviation of TL structure is much smaller than that of DL structure, especially,
at high ACCTs such as 8500 K. The fact is that the smaller the deviation is, the higher the color uniformity
becomes; and this statement can be demonstrated by the internal scattering of WLEDs: when more phosphor
layers are applied, more scattering events occur. As a result, the chromatic uniformity of WLEDs increases.
However, the rise in scattering event can lead to a decline in the luminous output. Nevertheless, this decrease
is insignificant compared to the advantages given to WLEDs when the back-scattering is reduced. Therefore,
the TL structure can attain either the best color uniformity or the highest luminous flux.
Figure 6. Luminous output (LO) of phosphor
configurations corresponding to ACCTs
Figure 7. Correlated color temperature deviation
(D-CCT) of remote phosphor configurations
corresponding to ACCTs
4. CONCLUSION
This article compares the optical efficiency of the structures DL and TL at five ACCTs. The green
Ca2La2BO6.5:Pb2+
and red Mg8Ge2O11F2:Mn4+
phosphors are applied during the simulating process. Besides,
the research results are verified by the Mie theory and the Lambert-Beer law. According to the results, adding
the green Ca2La2BO6.5:Pb2+
phosphor layer increases the green light component to get the color uniformity,
and luminous output enhanced. Thus, the TL structure results in better luminous flux and chromatic
uniformity than the DL one. Moreover, color rendering index and color quality scale, two most important
color quality indicators are improved with the presence of red Mg8Ge2O11F2:Mn4+
phosphor in
the configuration. The result shows that the TL structure has lower CRI but better and CQS than the DL.
It can be easily seen that the chromaticity depends on the balance among the three primary colors yellow, red,
and green. Therefore, the TL turns out to be the best selection in controlling these three colors. Besides,
the reduction in back-scattering of TL structure causes its luminous flux to increase noticeably. The proof is
that TL presents the highest value of luminous efficiency. In other words, TL structure can increase
the luminous efficiency and color quality of WLEDs at the same time, which could not be accomplished by
using DL structure. Based on the results of this study, manufacturers can easily choose the most appropriate
structure to enhance the quality of WLEDs.
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Enhance the chromatic uniformity and luminous efficiency of WLEDs with triple-layer remote phosphor structures

  • 1. International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol. 10, No. 6, December 2020, pp. 6244~6250 ISSN: 2088-8708, DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v10i6.pp6244-6250  6244 Journal homepage: http://ijece.iaescore.com/index.php/IJECE Enhance the chromatic uniformity and luminous efficiency of WLEDs with triple-layer remote phosphor structures Nguyen Thi Phuong Loan1 , Anh Tuan Le2 1 Faculty of Fundamental 2, Posts and Telecommunications Institute of Technology, Vietnam 2 Faculty of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Ton Duc Thang University, Vietnam Article Info ABSTRACT Article history: Received Sep 28, 2019 Revised May 18, 2020 Accepted May 27, 2020 The angular color uniformity (ACU) with the ability to evaluate chromatic performance of WLED has become an important target to achieve in producing higher-quality WLEDs. This paper studies the ACU enhancing effects of novel triple-phosphor configuration in lighting devices with remote phosphor structure. Moreover, the optical influences of remote phosphor structure with three phosphor layers (TL) on WLEDs properties are calculated and compared to the dual-layer (DL) one for reference. The experiments are applied to devices at 5 distinct correlated color temperature ranging from 5600-8500 K. The results presented that DL structure attains better color rendering index (CRI) than the TL one. Meanwhile, in terms of color quality scales (CQS), TL model shows higher values at all ACCTs, compared to the DL. Moreover, the luminous flux of DL configuration is lower than that of TL structure. In addition, the diversion of color temperature depicts as D-CCT in TL structure is much better than the value in DL structure, especially at high ACCT as 8500 K, which means TL is good for chromatic uniformity of high ACCTs WLEDs. These results proved that the triple-layer structure is superior and more effective to apply for acquiring the enhancement of WLEDs package. Keywords: Color rendering index Dual-layer phosphor Luminous efficacy Mie-scattering theory Remote-phosphor Triple-layer phosphor Copyright © 2020 Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science. All rights reserved. Corresponding Author: Anh Tuan Le, Faculty of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Ton Duc Thang University, No. 19 Nguyen Huu Tho Street, Tan Phong Ward, District 7, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Email: leanhtuan1@tdtu.edu.vn 1. INTRODUCTION Due to the efficiency in lighting and energy-saving, the diodes with light radiating ability called LEDs has soon recognized as potential lighting method. The applications of LEDs are spread out in many different fields from general usage of street lighting, back-lighting to more advanced utilization in medical and automobile [1-3]. To produce white light, the most common approach is to apply the combination of chromatic lights which yielded from the blue LED chip and the phosphor that ejects light downward. Such configuration is distinguished based on the appearance of phosphor component and known as phosphor- converted LEDs (pc-LEDs). Although the procedure to apply phosphor on the structure and create pc-LEDs are available which consists of the dispersing and conformal methods, these approaches all have drawbacks that are detrimental to pc-LEDs quality. For instance, the luminous efficiency of WLEDs from these methods are usually poor due to the light loss caused by back-scattering lights [4, 5]. Then, a configuration that separate the phosphor material and blue light source was introduced to enhance light output and known as the remote phosphor (RP) structure. The RP structure creates a gap between the components that helps reduce the re-emission from phosphor, and therefore is able to enhance the optical properties of pc-LEDs [6, 7]. In addition, the RP configuration can reduce the absorption of back-scattered light by the LED chip, thus promoting the reliability of WLEDs and decreasing the junction temperature [8-13].
  • 2. Int J Elec & Comp Eng ISSN: 2088-8708  Enhance the chromatic uniformity and luminous efficiency of WLEDs with … (Nguyen Thi Phuong Loan) 6245 In recent years, the optical properties of RP LEDs have been significantly improved, especially their luminous efficiency. However, their chromatic uniformity is still in low-quality, especially for planar RP configurations [14-16]. In general, a diffuser sheet is a tool to maintain uniformity in allocation and radiation of correlated color temperature (CCT). However, the results show the energy loss in the process of light transmission through the sheet [17-19]. Though resulting in low light efficiency, these approaches get better color uniformity. Besides, although angular color uniformity (ACU) can be adjusted through many different configurations that have been proposed such as the patterned sapphire substrate (PSS) [19], the DBR structure [20], and the dichroic filter that recycles light [21], but high expenses and complexity when implement on an available illuminating network are the disadvantages of these configuration. Therefore, to create a cost-efficient structure that is easy to integrate and has high color uniformity and luminous output, the remote micro-patterned phosphor (RMPP) layer is proposed as the alternative for the standard flat RP film in WLEDs. The RMPP layer is a structure with multiple layers where the flat RP film is laid in the middle of the micro-patterned (MP) polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) layers. Adapting this idea, dual-layer remote phosphor structures were proposed and investigated to achieve better optical performance. A dual- layer RP is comprised of a yellow YAG:Ce3+ layer placed under a red or green phosphor one. In 2017, Nhan and his partners reported that structure with red phosphor SrO.3B2O3:Sm2+ in the dual remote phosphor can enhance light output by 17% in comparison to the conventional phosphor configuration. Besides, in the stable concentration of red phosphor SrO.3B2O3:Sm2+ , the structure can achieve 5% higher color rendering index (CRI) than the mixed phosphor WLEDs [22, 23]. However, this study just showed the better results of CRI which is one of elements using to evaluate the color quality. Thus, it cannot completely assure the benefit of this structure to color quality of WLEDs, though the luminous flux is better. Another value called color quality scales (CQS) which includes CRI, viewer’s preference and color coordinates is consider a more powerful index to evaluate the color quality of WLEDs. Thus, Lee et al. introduced the two packages of dual-layer remote phosphor structures to enhance the lumen output, CRI and CQS of WLEDs. One of them uses SrBaSiO4:Eu2+ green phosphor layer while the other uses red phosphor SrwFxByOz: Eu2+ ,Sm2+ layer to place above the yellow YAG:Ce3+ layer. The results showed that the green- yellow structure can increase the green light component to better the luminous flux but it leads to a large decline in color quality. Meanwhile, the red-yellow model has better rendering ability that expresses through CRI, CQS and resulting in better color quality, although inferior in lumen efficacy. Besides, Anh’s team also researched on the different shapes of phosphor layers in the structure which are the flat dual-remote phosphor (FDRP) with planar layer and the concave dual-remote phosphor (CDRP) with indented layer. They finally figured out that compared to CDRP structure, the FDRP can accomplished better luminous flux as the light go through two phosphor layers more easily. They also suggested the suitable distances which are d1 = 0.08 mm or d2 = 0.63 mm to be the gap among the two phosphor layers and the led chip’s surface to achieve highest luminous flux. However, they also reported a significant reduction in the color uniformity in both cases. In general, dual-layer remote phosphor can enhance the optical properties of WLEDs, but it hard to attain better luminous flux and color quality at the same time. Therefore, a triple-layer remote phosphor is proposed to improve those aspects in LED production. A triple-layer remote phosphor structure consists of three different phosphor layers: the yellow YAG:Ce3+ is placed at the bottom, covering the nine LED chips, while the red phosphor film is located at the top and the green phosphor layer is the middle. That this structure includes green and red phosphor, not only the green but also the red-light components are increases, leading to the possibility of achieving both higher lumen output and color uniformity simultaneously. Hence, this study will investigate the use of triple-layer remote phosphor to enhance the performance of WLEDs. Moreover, comparisons between the effects of DL structure and TL structure on luminous flux, CRI and CQS will be demonstrated to assured the benefits of the using three phosphor layers inside the LED packages. Thus, we believe that the results from this paper are valuable information for manufacturers to produce WLEDs having better performance. The phosphor structure in this study is a triple remote phosphor with yellow YAG:Ce3+ , green Ca2La2BO6.5:Pb2+ , and red Mg8Ge2O11F2:Mn4+ phosphor layers. The arrangement of studied contents is preparation process of green and red phosphor and the organization of these phosphor layers will be presented in section 2. Section 3 includes the mathematic system used to analyze the performance of the remote phosphor layer, and discuses the attained results. Finally, the conclusion is demonstrated in section 4. 2. RESEARCH METHOD 2.1. Preparation of phosphor materials The green phosphor Ca2La2BO6.5:Pb2+ is utilized to increase the internal green light component of WLEDs, and thus enhancing the luminous output and color uniformity. Besides, the red-light component inside WLEDs can be improved by using the red Mg8Ge2O11F2:Mn4+ phosphor, leading to higher values of CRI and CQS. The preparations of these two phosphors are demonstrated as follows.
  • 3.  ISSN: 2088-8708 Int J Elec & Comp Eng, Vol. 10, No. 6, December 2020 : 6244 - 6250 6246 To prepare Ca2La2BO6.5:Pb2+ phosphor, the steps must be put into a strict order. Initially, the materials are mixed by using dry grinding or milling method. Next, they are fired in open quartz boats with air flows, at about 500ºC. After that, the mixture goes through powderizing process. Then, it is put into capped quartz tubes with N2, and fired for the second time under 1000ºC, in an hour. In the next step, this material will be powderized again. Finally, it will go through the third firing process at 1200ºC with the presence of N2 flows, for 1 hour. For the preparation of Mg8Ge2O11F2:Mn4+ , the process is simpler as it consists of fewer steps than that of Ca2La2BO6.5:Pb2+ phosphor. Firstly, the materials used in this process are mixed by dry ball-milling. Secondly, the mixture is fired with air flows in capped quartz tubes at 1200ºC for 2 hours. Thirdly, the dry ball-milling method is used to grind the fired substance into powder. Finally, the powder is re-fired in open quartz boats at the same temperature 1200ºC for approximately 16 hours (overnight). Before simulating Ca2La2BO6.5:Pb2+ and Mg8Ge2O11F2:Mn4+ phosphor, measurements of the materials properties such as concentration, particle size, stimulation spectrum, absorption spectrum, and emission spectrum must be ensured by experiments. However, among the measurements, we need to identify the suitable concentration of phosphor and particle size to achieve the best index in chromatic performance and lighting output. Meanwhile, the parameters of the phosphor spectrum are constants. Based on the results from previous researches, the particles of phosphor have a width of 14.5 µm. 2.2. Simulation process The cross-sectional schematics in Figure 1 are the illustration of LEDs packages used in the research. Figure 1(a), 1(b), respectively provides visual presentation on the arrangement of WLEDs package with glass cover, phosphor layers, a half-dome, and package with conformal coating. Specifically, the blue areas indicate lighting-emitting chips, the chromatic lines represent the phosphor of the corresponding color, and the empty spaces are the silicone matrix lenses. The substrate for the structure is predetermined as aluminum nitride and the default yellow phosphor is YAG:Ce3+ . (a) (b) Figure 1. Illustration of multi-layer phosphor structures of white LEDs, (a) dual-layer phosphor (DL) and (b) triple-layer phosphor (TL) This density of the phosphors layers is predetermined at 0.08 mm. Besides, the concentration of YAG:Ce3+ changes following the variation of the red or green or red phosphor concentration to maintain the average correlated color temperatures (ACCTs). In addition, at each different ACCT of each phosphor structure, the YAG:Ce3+ concentrations are diverse, which creates the diversity of scattering characteristic inside WLEDs. Moreover, this discrepancy leads to the differences in optical properties. It can be seen from Figure 2 that at all ACCTs, the yellow YAG:Ce3+ phosphor concentration in DL structure higher than in TL structure. Considering the same ACCT in all structures, if the YAG:Ce3+ concentration is higher, there will be more back-scattering events, and the reduced emitted luminous flux is higher. On the other hand, when the concentration of YAG:Ce3+ is raised, the imbalance among the three primary colors that produce white lights, including yellow, red and green, will appear, leading to the reduction in color quality. Hence, to advance the luminous flux and the chromatic quality of WLEDs, the back-scattering needs to be reduced by increasing the red-light component. Besides, the chromatic performance as well as the light output also under influences of green light. According to the mentioned information, it seems that the triple-layer phosphor structure is the most advantageous one, in terms of managing optical properties. In order to prove this assumption, the research team continues to provide other essential references to the remote phosphor structures. In Figure 3 is the measured emission spectra in both dual and triple-layer configurations. From the results, the emission spectrum of TL structure is higher than DL structure at several wavelength ranges which suggests that pc-LEDs with three phosphor layers has better lighting efficiency regardless of color performance.
  • 4. Int J Elec & Comp Eng ISSN: 2088-8708  Enhance the chromatic uniformity and luminous efficiency of WLEDs with … (Nguyen Thi Phuong Loan) 6247 Figure 2. The concentration of yellow YAG:Ce3+ phosphor in each remote phosphor structure at each different ACCT Figure 3. Emission spectra of phosphor configurations 3. RESULTS AND ANALYSIS Figure 4 demonstrates the CRI measured from dual-layer (DL) and triple-layer (TL) remote phosphor configurations that are used to research for phosphor influences. As can be seen, DL structure shows higher CRI than the TL, regardless of ACCT. Moreover, CRI of DL structure rises along with each of ACCT and reaches the highest value at ACCT of 8500 K. This result is one of the most vital references to improve CRI for remote phosphor structures, especially, when controlling the CRI is hard to achieve at high ACCT (over 7000 K). This structure is beneficial to the CRI because of the added red-light component from the red Mg8Ge2O11F2:Mn4+ phosphor layer. Meanwhile, in terms of CRI, the TL structure is the runner-up. Therefore, it can be assured that, with the objective as CRI, it is possible to choose DL structure in mass-producing WLEDs. However, CRI is just one of the indexes used to evaluate the color quality. In recent years, another parameter called CQS has become popular to many researches. CQS is a combination of the three elements: CRI, viewers' preference, and chromaticity coordinate. Due to its cover of these three factors, CQS has been a great goal of researchers and seemed to be the most crucial to evaluate the chromaticity. In this study, the CQS of remote phosphor structures are compared in Figure 5. If the DL has the highest CRI, the TL reaches the highest CQS, which can be explained by the balance among the three colors red, yellow and green. The higher the CQS, the higher the color quality. Conversely, the CQS is found lower in DL structure. In general, TL structure is advantageous to the luminous flux, but hard to manage the color quality if there is no presence of the added red and green light components. Based on Figure 5, it can be assured that if the goal of manufacturers is the color quality, they should select TL structure. Nevertheless, the rising question is that if the chromatic quality is better, is the luminous output affected? To figure out this question, the research team made a comparison of the emitted luminous flux between the DL and TL configurations. The part below presents the mathematical systems that were applied to determine results of blue light transmission and yellow light conversion in the TL remote structure. The results are studied to confirm the enhancement of LED efficiency achieved from this structure. Figure 4. Color rendering indexes of phosphor configurations corresponding to ACCTs Figure 5. Color quality scale of phosphor configurations corresponding to ACCTs
  • 5.  ISSN: 2088-8708 Int J Elec & Comp Eng, Vol. 10, No. 6, December 2020 : 6244 - 6250 6248 The emitted blue light and yellow light from light conversion for remote phosphor structure containing one phosphor layer with thickness described as 2h are expressed as follows [24, 25]: 𝑃𝐵2 = 𝑃𝐵0 𝑒−𝛼 𝐵2ℎ 𝑒−𝛼 𝐵2ℎ = 𝑃𝐵0 𝑒−2𝛼 𝐵2ℎ (1) 𝑃𝑌2 = 1 2 𝛽2 𝑃𝐵0 𝛼 𝐵2−𝛼 𝑌2 [𝑒−𝛼 𝑌2ℎ − 𝑒−𝛼 𝐵2ℎ ]𝑒−𝛼 𝑌2ℎ + 1 2 𝛽2 𝑃𝐵0 𝛼 𝐵2−𝛼 𝑌2 [𝑒−𝛼 𝑌2ℎ − 𝑒−𝛼 𝐵2ℎ ] = 1 2 𝛽2 𝑃𝐵0 𝛼 𝐵2−𝛼 𝑌2 [𝑒−2𝛼 𝑌1ℎ − 𝑒−2𝛼 𝐵1ℎ ] (2) The emitted blue light and yellow light from light conversion for remote phosphor package containing two phosphor layers with the layer thickness of h are measured with: 𝑃𝐵3 = 𝑃𝐵0. 𝑒−𝛼 𝐵2 2ℎ 3 . 𝑒−𝛼 𝐵2 2ℎ 3 . 𝑒−𝛼 𝐵2 2ℎ 3 = 𝑃𝐵0. 𝑒−2𝛼 𝐵3ℎ (3) 𝑃𝑌′ 3 = 1 2 𝛽3 𝑃𝐵0 𝛼 𝐵3−𝛼 𝑌3 [𝑒−𝛼 𝑌3 2ℎ 3 – 𝑒−𝛼 𝐵3 2ℎ 3 ]𝑒−𝛼 𝑌3 2ℎ 3 + 1 2 𝛽3 𝑃𝐵0 𝑒 −𝛼 𝐵3 2ℎ 3 𝛼 𝐵3−𝛼 𝑌3 [𝑒−𝛼 𝑌3 2ℎ 3 − 𝑒−𝛼 𝐵3 2ℎ 3 ] = 1 2 𝛽3 𝑃𝐵0 𝛼 𝐵3−𝛼 𝑌3 [𝑒−𝛼 𝑌3 4ℎ 3 − 𝑒−2𝛼 𝐵3 4ℎ 3 ] (4) 𝑃𝑌3 = 𝑃𝑌′ 3. 𝑒−𝛼 𝑌3 2ℎ 3 + 𝑃𝐵0.𝑒−2𝛼 𝐵3 4ℎ 3 1 2 𝛽3 𝛼 𝐵3−𝛼 𝑌3 [𝑒−𝛼 𝑌3 2ℎ 3 − 𝑒−𝛼 𝐵3 2ℎ 3 ] = 1 2 𝛽3 𝑃𝐵0 𝛼 𝐵3−𝛼 𝑌3 [𝑒−𝛼 𝑌3 4ℎ 3 – 𝑒−𝛼 𝐵3 4ℎ 3 ]𝑒−𝛼 𝑌3 2ℎ 3 + 1 2 𝛽3 𝑃𝐵0 𝑒 −𝛼 𝐵3 4ℎ 3 𝛼 𝐵3−𝛼 𝑌3 [𝑒−𝛼 𝑌3 2ℎ 3 − 𝑒−𝛼 𝐵3 2ℎ 3 ] = 1 2 𝛽3 𝑃𝐵0 𝛼 𝐵3−𝛼 𝑌3 [𝑒−𝛼 𝑌3ℎ − 𝑒−2𝛼 𝐵3ℎ ] (5) The h depicts the phosphor layer density. The subscript “1” and “2” note the single layer and double-layer remote phosphor configurations. β is the conversion coefficient for blue light converting to yellow light. γ is the reflection coefficient of the yellow light. The intensities of blue light (PB) and yellow light (PY) are results obtained from light intensity of blue LED, indicated by PB0. αB; αY are indices describing the loss of transmitted energy in blue and yellow lights during their scattering process in their respective phosphor layer. Besides, in subscript “4”, PY’3 is the amount of yellow light that has passed two phosphor materials. In TL remote structure pc-LEDs, there is a notable improvement in lighting efficiency when compared to a dual-layer one that can be seen from the following: (𝑃𝐵3−𝑃𝑌3)−(𝑃𝐵2+𝑃𝑌2) (𝑃𝐵2+𝑃𝑌2) > 𝑒 −2𝛼 𝐵3 ℎ −𝑒 −2𝛼 𝐵2 ℎ 𝑒 −2𝛼 𝑌3 ℎ −𝑒 −2𝛼 𝐵2 ℎ> 0 (6) The Mie-theory is used in the analysis of scattering of phosphor particles. Moreover, through the following expression that applied the Mie theory, the scattering cross section Csca for circular particles is obtained. In addition, the efficiency of light power transmission can be defined with Beer’s law [25]: I = I0 exp(-µextL) (7) The I0 in this equation is the energy of incident light, L represents the density of phosphor layer (mm) and µext is the extinction coefficient, which are measured by: µext = Nr.Cext, where Nr is as the number density distribution of particles (mm-3 ). Cext (mm2 ) is the extinction cross-section of phosphor particles. In (6) proved three phosphor layers is more beneficial to the luminous flux than two layers. This is demonstrated in details with Figure 6. Specifically, TL structure shows higher lumen output than the DL does at all ACCTs. This erases suspicions about the benefits that TL brings to the luminous flux though it has the best color quality. In other words, TL structure can enhance both chromatic uniformity and lumen efficiency simultaneously. This finding can be explained by the higher emission intensity of TL in the wavelength range of 500 nm-600 nm, compared to that of DL, due to a larger reduction in the YAG:Ce3+
  • 6. Int J Elec & Comp Eng ISSN: 2088-8708  Enhance the chromatic uniformity and luminous efficiency of WLEDs with … (Nguyen Thi Phuong Loan) 6249 phosphor concentration to keep the ACCT. At that time, the TL structure can reduce the internal back-scattering lights, leading to the blue light from LED chips can easily transmit through YAG:Ce3+ layer to other layers. In other words, TL structure helps the blue light power from LED chips to be converted effectively. Thus, compared to DL model, TL structure achieves higher emission spectrum intensity in the wavelength band of white light, resulting in better performance in its luminous flux. Hence, the TL structure can be chosen due to its superior in optical properties of WLEDs, including CQS and LE. There are various methods to improve the color uniformity, which is an important element for color quality, such as scattering enhancement particles SiO2, CaCO3, etc., or conformal phosphor structure. When applying the green Ca2La2BO6.5:Pb2+ phosphor and red Mg8Ge2O11F2:Mn4+ phosphor, the scattering properties and chromatic light components inside WLEDs are increased, leading to generating better white light. Additionally, utilizing the remote phosphor structure can promote the emitted luminous flux due to the reduction in the back-scattering of light to the LED chip. Although these two approaches can improve the color uniformity, the luminous flux seems to decrease. Therefore, the phosphor concentration needs to be adjusted to an appropriate amount to achieve the highest power transmission, which can be proven by the Lambert-Beer law in (7). In Figure 7 is the comparison of color deviation between DL and TL structures. As can be seen, the color deviation of TL structure is much smaller than that of DL structure, especially, at high ACCTs such as 8500 K. The fact is that the smaller the deviation is, the higher the color uniformity becomes; and this statement can be demonstrated by the internal scattering of WLEDs: when more phosphor layers are applied, more scattering events occur. As a result, the chromatic uniformity of WLEDs increases. However, the rise in scattering event can lead to a decline in the luminous output. Nevertheless, this decrease is insignificant compared to the advantages given to WLEDs when the back-scattering is reduced. Therefore, the TL structure can attain either the best color uniformity or the highest luminous flux. Figure 6. Luminous output (LO) of phosphor configurations corresponding to ACCTs Figure 7. Correlated color temperature deviation (D-CCT) of remote phosphor configurations corresponding to ACCTs 4. CONCLUSION This article compares the optical efficiency of the structures DL and TL at five ACCTs. The green Ca2La2BO6.5:Pb2+ and red Mg8Ge2O11F2:Mn4+ phosphors are applied during the simulating process. Besides, the research results are verified by the Mie theory and the Lambert-Beer law. According to the results, adding the green Ca2La2BO6.5:Pb2+ phosphor layer increases the green light component to get the color uniformity, and luminous output enhanced. Thus, the TL structure results in better luminous flux and chromatic uniformity than the DL one. Moreover, color rendering index and color quality scale, two most important color quality indicators are improved with the presence of red Mg8Ge2O11F2:Mn4+ phosphor in the configuration. The result shows that the TL structure has lower CRI but better and CQS than the DL. It can be easily seen that the chromaticity depends on the balance among the three primary colors yellow, red, and green. Therefore, the TL turns out to be the best selection in controlling these three colors. Besides, the reduction in back-scattering of TL structure causes its luminous flux to increase noticeably. The proof is that TL presents the highest value of luminous efficiency. In other words, TL structure can increase the luminous efficiency and color quality of WLEDs at the same time, which could not be accomplished by using DL structure. Based on the results of this study, manufacturers can easily choose the most appropriate structure to enhance the quality of WLEDs.
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