Lead Performer: PhosphorTech Corporation – Kennesaw, GA
DOE Total Funding: $149,975
Project Term: February 22, 2016 – March 31, 2017
Funding Type: SBIR

PROJECT OBJECTIVE

PhosphorTech and its partners propose the development of high-performance, hybrid inorganic down-converting material systems for high-brightness LED applications. While conventional bulk phosphors are currently the dominant down-converters used in high-power SSL applications, their performance is limited by intrinsic properties such as high scattering cross-sections and large emission bandwidth. PhosphorTech believes that by designing a complete inorganic hybrid system, the new materials will outperform bulk phosphors, nanocrystals, and conventional quantum dots and will ultimately enable a new generation of SSL devices with high luminous efficacies, high color and thermal stability, and spectral efficiency near the theoretical maximum luminous efficacy of radiation as a result of their color-tunability and narrow bandwidths.

PROJECT IMPACT

Ultimately, these materials will enable a new generation of solid-state lighting devices with high luminous efficacies, high color and thermal stability, and with spectral efficiency near the theoretical maximum luminous efficacy of radiation (LER), as a result of their color tunability and narrow bandwidths (FWHM < 30nm).

CONTACTS

DOE Technology Manager: James Brodrick, James.Brodrick@ee.doe.gov
Lead Performer: Hisham Menkara, PhosphorTech Corporation