Light emitting device and system providing white light with various color temperatures
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorYu-Sik Kim
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Abstract
In a light emitting device and system providing white light with various color temperatures are provided, a light emitting device includes a light emitting element (LED) that is operated by a driving bias and emits first light, and a phosphor layer including a phosphor that partially wavelength-converts first light and emits second light, thereby emitting white light using the first light and the second light, wherein the phosphor has a maximum conversion efficiency at a first level of the driving bias, and the LED has a maximum conversion efficiency at a second level of the driving bias, the first level being different from the first level.
Claims9
A light emitting device comprising:
- a light emitting element which is operated by a forward driving bias to emit first light and includes a first conductive layer of a first conductivity type, a second conductive layer of a second conductivity type, a light emitting layer disposed between the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer, a first electrode connected to the first conductive layer, and a second electrode connected to the second conductive layer, wherein the first conductive layer, the second conductive layer and the light emitting layer are represented by InxAlyGa(1-x-y)N (0≦x≦1, 0≦y≦1);
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- a phosphor layer including a phosphor which partially wavelength-converts the first light to emit second light, wherein the phosphor layer includes only the phosphor or a combination of transparent resin and a phosphor,
- wherein the light emitting element emits blue light, the phosphor layer includes a yellow phosphor which partially wavelength-converts the blue light to emit yellow light and a red phosphor which partially wavelength-converts the blue light to emit red light, or a green phosphor which partially wavelength-converts the blue light to emit green light and a red phosphor which partially wavelength-converts the blue light to emit red light, and
- wherein the light emitting device emits white light using the first light and the second light such that a color temperature of the white light is varied by adjusting a level of the driving bias.
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