Ceramic composite for light conversion and light-emitting device using same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9611426-B2
Application number	US-201314387738-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 28, 2013
Priority date	Mar 30, 2012
Publication date	Apr 4, 2017
Grant date	Apr 4, 2017

Abstract

A ceramic composite for light conversion, which can make the fluorescence dominant wavelength longer up to 580 nm, further arbitrarily adjust the wavelength in the range of 570 to 580 nm, and undergoes no decrease in fluorescence intensity even when the fluorescence dominant wavelength is made longer, with luminescence unevenness suppressed. A light-emitting device comprising ceramic composite mentioned above. The ceramic composite for light conversion is a solidified body including a composition expressed by the following formula (1), where the composition has a structure where at least two oxide phases of a first phase and a second phase are continuously and three-dimensionally entangled mutually, and the ceramic composite for light conversion is characterized in that the first phase is a (Tb, Y) 3 Al 5 O 12 phase activated with Ce for producing fluorescence, whereas the second phase is an Al 2 O 3 phase.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A ceramic composite for light conversion, which is formed of a solidified body comprising a composition expressed by the following formula (1), the composition having a structure where at least two oxide phases of a first phase and a second phase are continuously and three-dimensionally entangled mutually,
the first phase being a (Tb, Y) 3 Al 5 O 12 phase activated with Ce for producing fluorescence, and
the second phase being an Al 2 O 3 phase,
[Formula 1]
AlO 3/2 −x ·( a ·TbO 7/4 −b ·YO 3/2 −c ·CeO 2 )  (1)

in which x satisfies 0.23<x<0.30, and a, b, and c represent mole fractions, and satisfy 0≦b/a≦4, 0<c≦0.025, and a+b+c=1.

2. The ceramic composite for light conversion according to claim 1 , wherein c in the formula (1) satisfies 0.002≦c≦0.02, and which has a plate shape and a thickness of 80 μm or more and 400 μm or less in a light-emitting direction.

3. The ceramic composite for light conversion according to claim 1 , wherein the composite absorbs light having a peak at a wavelength of 420 to 500 nm and emits fluorescence having a dominant wavelength at 570 to 580 nm.

4. The ceramic composite for light conversion according to claim 2 , wherein the composite absorbs light having a peak at a wavelength of 420 to 500 nm and emits fluorescence having a dominant wavelength at 570 to 580 nm.

5. The ceramic composite for light conversion according to claim 3 , wherein the composite receives light having a peak at a wavelength of 420 to 500 nm, emits fluorescence converted from some of the light as excitation light, and transmits some of the light to emit transmitted light, and the fluorescence and the transmitted light are mixed to emit white light.

6. The ceramic composite for light conversion according to claim 4 , wherein the white light has chromaticity in a region surrounded by (0.30, 0.32), (0.34, 0.30), (0.42, 0.41), and (0.38, 0.45) in CIE chromaticity coordinates (Cx, Cy).

7. A light-emitting device comprising a light-emitting element and the ceramic composite for light conversion according to claim 1 .

8. A light-emitting device comprising a light-emitting element having a peak at a wavelength 420 to 500 nm, and the ceramic composite for light conversion according to claim 1 for emitting fluorescence having a dominant wavelength between 570 nm and 580 nm.

9. The light-emitting device according to claim 6 , wherein the light-emitting element is a light-emitting diode element.

10. The light-emitting device according to claim 7 , wherein the light-emitting element is a light-emitting diode element.

Assignees

• Ube Industries

Inventors

• Iba Hisayoshi
• Ishitobi Shinichi
• Ichizono Yasuyuki

Classifications

• H10W90/724

  between a chip and a stacked insulating package substrate, interposer or RDL · CPC title

• C09K11/7774 Primary

  Aluminates · CPC title

• H05B33/14

  characterised by the chemical or physical composition or the arrangement of the electroluminescent material {, or by the simultaneous addition of the electroluminescent material in or onto the light source} · CPC title

• H10H20/851

  Wavelength conversion means · CPC title

• C09K11/08

  containing inorganic luminescent materials · CPC title