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Gas-Reduction—Nitridation Synthesis of Nitride Phosphors for Solid-State Lighting

Wednesday, 8 October 2014: 15:10
Sunrise, 2nd Floor, Star Ballroom 4 & 5 (Moon Palace Resort)
T. Suehiro, R. J. Xie, and N. Hirosaki (National Institute for Materials Science)
In the last decade, SiAlONs and nitridosilicates have been developed as an important class of phosphor host materials because of their great potentials for solid-state lighting (SSL). However, their low manufacturability (reaction sintering and postsynthesis grinding) is a major obstacle to the widespread use in SSL applications, triggering the intense investigations for developing more sophisticated processing techniques.

In this regard, we have developed the gas-reduction—nitridation (GRN) method, which enables the direct synthesis of nitride fine powders from the multicomponent oxide systems by using an NH3—CH4 gas mixture as a reduction—nitridation agent. The GRN-derived powders possess high phase purity, nonaggregated fine particle morphology, and very low impurity absorption throughout emissive regions, all of which meet the demands for phosphor applications. In this talk, our successful applications of the GRN process to the Eu2+-activated α-SiAlON and CASN, as well as Ce3+-activated La—Si—N phosphors for SSL will be demonstrated.