Proceedings of nanoGe September Meeting 2015 (NFM15)
Publication date: 8th June 2015
White color emission is important in both lighting and display applications, and it can be realized by electroluminescence (EL) and photoluminescence (PL). White color emission is achieved by direct emission from light emissive materials in EL, while short light source such as blue or UV is converted into green and red in PL. Colloidal semiconducting QDs have been recognized for their narrow color emission, high quantum yield (QY) and solution process-ability. Futhermore, the color quaility is eaily controlled compare to other materials with regard to CRI, color temp and color gamut as well as efficiency. In this work, white color control using quantum dot in both EL and PL application are investigated. The first approach is to control white color emission with quantum dot based single compounds in QD EL devices. White-light emitting single compounds were synthesized by grafting blue-emission fluorescent molecules onto yellow emitting CdSe/ZnS core/shell quantum dots (QDs) and white LED were demonstrated. The easy controllability of color temperature was also demonstrated from warm white (4,902 K) to cool white (10,769 K) by adjusting the weight ratio of QD to grafted molecules and QD size. Second approach is to control white color emission by converting blue emission to orange and red emission. White emission was achieved using CuInS2/ZnS QD-embedded polymer nanofibers for color conversion films on GaN blue LEDs. High CRI (>90) was achieved through QD-embedded color conversion films.Finally, short wavelength emission to long wavelength emission, Förster resonance energy transfer, is prevented by mixing two different types of QD blended polymers. 91% of Rec. 2020 color gamut was achieved by applying the blended films on the GaN blue LED which can be potentially used for ultra-high definition (UHD) displays backlights.