Fluorescent powder and light-emitting device including the same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9926489-B2
Application number	US-201414900198-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 20, 2014
Priority date	Jun 24, 2013
Publication date	Mar 27, 2018
Grant date	Mar 27, 2018

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to a fluorescent powder and a light-emitting device including the same. The fluorescent powder includes an inorganic compound. The inorganic compound contains components including an element M, an element A, an element D, an element E, and an element R. The element M is selected from Eu, Ce, Mn, Tb, Dy, and Tm, the element A is selected from Mg, Ca, Sr, and Ba, the element D is selected from B, Al, Ga, In, La, Gd, Sc, Lu, and Y, the element E is selected from Si, Ge, Zr, and Hf, and the element R is at least two elements selected from N, O, F, and Cl. In a powder X-Ray Diffraction (XRD) spectrum with CoKα radiation, the inorganic compound at least has diffraction peaks within ranges of an Bragg angle (2θ) from 27.3° to 28.3°, 29.7° to 30.7°, 41.9° to 42.9°, and 43.5° to 44.5°.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A fluorescent powder, comprising an inorganic compound, wherein the inorganic compound contains components including an element M, an element A, an element D, an element E, and an element R, wherein the element M is one or two elements selected from Eu, Ce, Mn, Tb, Dy, and Tm, the element A is one or two elements selected from Mg, Ca, Sr, and Ba, the element D is one or two elements selected from B, Al, Ga, In, La, Gd, Sc, Lu, and Y, the element E is one or two elements selected from Si, Ge, Zr, and Hf, and the element R is at least two elements selected from N, O, F, and Cl, and in a powder XRD spectrum with CoKα radiation, the inorganic compound at least has diffraction peaks within ranges of an Bragg angle 2θ from 27.3° to 28.3°, 29.7° to 30.7°, 41.9° to 42.9°, and 43.5° to 44.5°, and phases having the diffraction peaks are main generation phases of the inorganic compound;
wherein a composition formula of the inorganic compound is M a A b D c E d R e , wherein parameters a, b, c, d and e satisfy the following conditions: 0.0001≤a≤0.5, 0.5≤b≤1.5, 0.5≤c≤1.5, 3≤d≤6 and 7≤e≤14;
wherein the inorganic compound has a crystal structure with a P m crystal system as a main phase.

2. The fluorescent powder according to claim 1 , wherein the preferably, the parameters a, b, c, d, and e satisfy the following conditions: 0.03≤a≤0.1, 0.9≤b≤1.1, 0.9≤c≤1.1, 4.7≤d≤4.9 and 8≤e≤10.

3. The fluorescent powder according to claim 2 , wherein the parameters a, b, c and d satisfy the following condition: (a+b):c:d=(0.8-1.2):(0.8-1.2):(4.8-5.2).

4. The fluorescent powder according to claim 2 , wherein the parameters satisfy the following condition: d/c>4.6.

5. The fluorescent powder according to claim 4 , wherein lattice constants of the inorganic compound are a′, b′ and c′ respectively, and values thereof are a′=14.74(1) Å, b′=9.036(1) Å and c′=7.461(1) Å.

6. The fluorescent powder according to claim 2 , wherein the element M includes Eu, the element A includes Sr, the element D includes Al, the element E includes Si, and the element R includes N and O.

7. The fluorescent powder according to claim 6 , wherein a ratio of an atomicity m of the element Sr to an atomicity b of the element A satisfies the following condition: 0.8≤m/b≤1.

8. The fluorescent powder according to claim 6 , wherein the element M is Eu, the element A is Sr, the element D is Al, the element E is Si, and the element R is N and O.

9. The fluorescent powder according to claim 8 , wherein a ratio of an atomicity n of the element N and an atomicity e of the element R satisfies the following condition: 0.5≤n/e<1.

10. The fluorescent powder according to claim 8 , wherein a ratio of the atomicity n of the element N and an atomicity e of the element R satisfies the following condition: 0.9≤n/e<1.

11. The fluorescent powder according to claim 2 , wherein the parameters satisfy the following condition: 4.7≤d/c≤4.9.

12. The fluorescent powder according to claim 1 , wherein the inorganic compound is irradiated by an excitation source to emit visible lights having peak wavelengths within a range of 510 nm to 550 nm.

13. The fluorescent powder according to claim 1 , wherein the fluorescent powder is a mixture formed by the inorganic compound and other crystal phases or non-crystal phases, and the other crystal phases and non-crystal phases account for less than 20% of the total mass of the mixture.

14. The fluorescent powder according to claim 1 , wherein in the powder XRD spectrum with CoKα radiation, the inorganic compound at least has diffraction peaks within ranges of an Bragg angle 2θ from 17.4° to 18.4°, 27.3° to 28.3°, 29.7° to 30.7°, 41.9° to 42.9°, and 43.5° to 44.5°, and phases having the diffraction peaks are the main generation phases of the inorganic compound.

15. The fluorescent powder according to claim 14 , wherein in the powder XRD spectrum with CoKα radiation, the inorganic compound at least has diffraction peaks within ranges of a Bragg angle 2θ from 17.4° to 18.4°, 27.3° to 28.3°, 29.7° to 30.7°, 35.6° to 36.6°, 37.0° to 38.0°, 41.9° to 42.9° and 43.5° to 44.5°, and phases having the diffraction peaks are the main generation phases of the inorganic compound.

16. The fluorescent powder according to claim 15 , wherein in the powder XRD spectrum with the CoKα radiation, intensities of the diffraction peaks of the inorganic compound within the ranges of the Bragg angle 2θ from 35.6° to 36.6° and 37.0° to 38.0° are higher than 10% of an intensity of a strongest diffraction peak in a diffraction spectrum.

17. The fluorescent powder according to claim 16 , wherein in the powder XRD spectrum with the CoKα radiation, the intensities of the diffraction peaks of the inorganic compound within the ranges of the Bragg angle 2θ from 35.6° to 36.6° and 37.0° to 38.0° are higher than 10% to 30% of the intensity of the strongest diffraction peak in the diffraction spectrum.

18. The fluorescent powder according to claim 15 , wherein in the powder XRD spectrum with the CoKα radiation, an intensity of the diffraction peak of the inorganic compound within the range of the Bragg angle 2θ from 36.7° to 36.8° is not higher than 3% of an intensity of a strongest diffraction peak in a diffraction spectrum.

19. The fluorescent powder according to claim 15 , wherein in the powder XRD spectrum with CoKα radiation, the inorganic compound has diffraction peaks within ranges of an Bragg angle 2θ from 17.4° to 18.4°, 27.3° to 28.3°, 29.7° to 30.7°, 31.0° to 32.0°, 34.0° to 35.0°, 35.6° to 36.6°, 37.0° to 38.0°, 41.9° to 42.9°, 43.5° to 44.5°, and phases having the diffraction peaks are the main generation phases of the inorganic compound.

20. The fluorescent powder according to claim 19 , wherein in the powder XRD spectrum with the CoKα radiation, an intensity of the diffraction peak of the inorganic compound within the range of the Bragg angle 2θ from 31.0° to 32.0° is not higher than 5% of an intensity of a strongest diffraction peak in a diffraction spectrum.

21. The fluorescent powder according to claim 19 , wherein in the powder XRD spectrum with CoKα radiation, the inorganic compound at least has diffraction peaks within ranges of an Bragg angle 2θ from 13.4° to 14.4°, 17.4° to 18.4°, 27.3° to 28.3°, 29.7° to 30.7°, 31.0° to 32.0°, 34.0° to 35.0°, 35.6° to 36.6°, 37.0° to 38.0°, 39.3° to 40.3°, 41.9° to 42.9°, 43.5° to 44.5°, 74.3° to 75.3°, and phases having the diffraction peaks are the main generation phases of the inorganic compound.

22. The fluorescent powder according to claim 21 , wherein in the powder XRD spectrum with CoKα radiation, the inorganic compound at least has diffraction peaks within ranges of an Bragg angle 2θ from 13.4° to 14.4°, 15.1° to 16.1°, 17.4° to 18.4°, 23.7° to 25.7°, 27.3° to 28.3°, 29.7° to 30.7°, 31.0° to 32.0°, 34.0° to 35.0°, 35.6° to 36.6°, 37.0° to 38.0°, 39.3° to 40.3°, 41.9° to 42.9°, 43.5° to 44.5°, 46.5° to 47.5°, 54.6° to 55.6°, 74.3° to 75.3°, and phases having the diffraction peaks are the main generation phases of the inorganic compound.

23. A light-emitting device including an excitation source and a luminophor, wherein the luminophor at least includes the fluorescent powder according to claim 1 .

24. The light-emitting device according to claim 23 , wherein the excitation source is an emission source of ultraviolet lights, purple lights, or blue lights.

Assignees

• Gen Res Inst Nonferrous Metals
• Grirem Advanced Mat Co Ltd

Inventors

• Liu Ronghui
• Xu Huibing
• Zhou Xiaofang
• Zhao Chunlei
• Ma Qian
• Liu Yuanhong
• He Huaqiang
• Huang Xiaowei

Classifications

• C09K11/7773

  with alkali or alkaline earth metal · CPC title

• C09K11/0883 Primary

  Arsenides; Nitrides; Phosphides · CPC title

• H01L33/504

  Electricity · mapped topic

• C09K11/7774

  Aluminates · CPC title

• C09K11/7749

  Aluminates · CPC title