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Temperature Effect on the Optical Properties of YAG and Silicate Phosphor-based White Light Emitting Diodes

온도 변화에 따른 YAG 및 Silicate형광체 기반 백색 LED의 광특성 변화에 대한 연구

  • 최현우 (한림대학교 전자물리학과) ;
  • 고재현 (한림대학교 전자물리학과)
  • Received : 2013.05.20
  • Accepted : 2013.06.14
  • Published : 2013.06.25

Abstract

Two white light emitting diodes(LEDs) were fabricated by using two kinds of yellow phosphor, YAG:Ce and $(Sr,Ba)_2SiO4:Eu$, and their spectroscopic properties were analyzed as a function of temperature from room temperature to $80^{\circ}C$. The asymmetric double sigmoidal function was applied to both blue and yellow peaks of the emitting spectrum to obtain the center wavelength, the amplitude, the half width, and the skewness parameters. According to this analysis, the center wavelength of the blue peak shifted to longer wavelength while that of the yellow peak shifted to shorter wavelength. In addition, some of the skewness parameters were found to increase upon heating, which indicates that spectrum asymmetry becomes enhanced at higher temperatures. The changes in the color coordinates and the luminous efficacy were larger for the case of silicate-based white LED. These results suggest that the silicate-based white LED is inferior to the YAG-based white LED from the viewpoint of color stability, efficacy and color rendering index.

본 논문에서는 YAG:Ce와 $(Sr,Ba)_2SiO4:Eu$ 등 두 종류의 형광체를 사용하여 백색 LED를 제작하고 온도변화에 따라 각각의 백색 LED의 발광 특성이 어떻게 변하는지 조사하였다. 상온에서 $80^{\circ}C$ 사이의 구간에서 측정된 두 백색 LED의 발광 스펙트럼을 분석하기 위해 asymmetric double sigmoidal 함수를 활용하였다. 이 함수를 백색 LED의 청색 발광 및 황색 발광 피크에 적용해서 각 피크의 중심파장과 진폭, 반치폭 및 비대칭성을 온도의 함수로 구하였다. 그 결과 온도가 증가할수록 청색 피크의 중심파장이 장파장 쪽으로 천이되고 황색피크의 중심파장이 단파장 쪽으로 천이되며 비대칭성 또한 증가한다는 것을 확인할 수 있었다. 이러한 결과는 두 백색 LED의 색도변화에 반영되었는데, 실리케이트계 형광체 기반 LED의 색도 변화가 더 큼을 알 수 있었다. 발광효율 역시 온도가 증가할수록 크게 떨어지는 것을 볼 수 있었는데 YAG 형광체 기반 LED의 발광효율 저하 폭이 더 적음을 확인하였다. 이상의 결과는 YAG 형광체 기반 백색 LED가 실리케이트계 형광체 기반 LED에 비해 색도안정성, 발광효율, 연색지수 측면에서 더 뛰어나다는 것을 의미한다.

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