Eu2+-activated strontium-barium silicate: a positive solution for improving luminous efficacy and color uniformity of white light-emitting diodes

In this research we have studied the lighting enhancement method by analyzing chromatic performance and luminous flux of light emitting diodes that produce white light. In order to achieve expected results, it is necessary to mix Eu2+-activated strontium-barium silicate (SrBaSiO4:Eu2+) with its phosphor compounding, which has been demonstrated to have considerable influence on lighting performance. The results showed that with the gradually increasing concentration of yellow-green-emitting SrBaSiO4:Eu2+ phosphor in LEDs devices, at 8500 K, the color homogeneity and the lighting output received a great improvement. The color quality scale, on the other hand, responded negatively to the increase in SrBaSiO4:Eu2+. The impact of SrBaSiO4:Eu2+ on optical properties of WLEDs was confirmed. The final step to optimize SrBaSiO4:Eu2+ usage in lighting development is to figure out a suitable amount of particles and optimize their size.

Nucleation pathways in barium silicate glasses

Nucleation is generally viewed as a structural fluctuation that passes a critical size to eventually become a stable emerging new phase. However, this concept leaves out many details, such as changes in cluster composition and competing pathways to the new phase. In this work, both experimental and computer modeling studies are used to understand the cluster composition and pathways. Monte Carlo and molecular dynamics approaches are used to analyze the thermodynamic and kinetic contributions to the nucleation landscape in barium silicate glasses. Experimental techniques examine the resulting polycrystals that form. Both the modeling and experimental data indicate that a silica rich core plays a dominant role in the nucleation process.

SrBaSiO4:Eu2+ phosphor: a novel application for improving the luminous flux and color quality of multi-chip white LED lamps

This paper described in detail the chromatic homogeneity and luminous flux influences in producing better quality white LED devices with various phosphor layers (MCW-LEDs). The method is to let Eu2+-activated strontium–barium silicate (SrBaSiO4:Eu2+) mixed with their phosphor compounding, which results in notable impact on lighting performance. The increase in concentration of yellow-green-emitting SrBaSiO4:Eu2+ phosphor also promotes the color performance and lumen output of WLED devices at high correlated color temperature around 8500K. This is the first time this approach is applied and it results can be utilized for better understanding of optical properties interaction with phosphor materials. Although SrBaSiO4:Eu2+ receives many positive responses, we still need to limit it concentration for high SrBaSiO4:Eu2+ concentration is detrimental to CQS. The appropriate choice of concentration and size of SrBaSiO4:Eu2+ is the principal factor to decide the performance of MCW-LEDs.