Method of Making White Light LEDs and Continuously Color Tunable LEDs
First Claim
1. A method for making a white light emitting light emitting diode (LED), comprising:
- providing an LED base pump having a light emitting surface that emits light having a wavelength of about 400 nm to about 480 nm;
depositing red and green fluorescent microspheres on the light emitting surface of the LED base pump with;
spreading the red and green microspheres on the light emitting surface of the LED base pump to produce a microsphere layer; and
affixing the microsphere layer with a protective dielectric layer or coating.
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Abstract
A light emitting diode comprising of a fluorescent microsphere coating is proposed. The coating consists of fluorescent microspheres which fluoresce at green and red wavelengths, excited by a shorter wavelength LED. Due to the micron-scale dimension of the spheres, they are non-resolvable to the human eye and the overall optical output appears as color mixed. By varying the proportions of green and red fluorescent microspheres and the wavelength of the excitation source, the color of the optical output can be tuned. If the optical output has of blue, green and red components in the correct proportions, white color emission can be achieved. The light emitting diode can be sectioned into multiple individually-addressable regions. Each section can emit at a different wavelength according to the type of fluorescent microspheres coated. By varying the intensity of the blue, green and red regions by changing the bias voltage, the output wavelength (color) can be continuously tuned (varied).
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17 Claims
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1. A method for making a white light emitting light emitting diode (LED), comprising:
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providing an LED base pump having a light emitting surface that emits light having a wavelength of about 400 nm to about 480 nm; depositing red and green fluorescent microspheres on the light emitting surface of the LED base pump with; spreading the red and green microspheres on the light emitting surface of the LED base pump to produce a microsphere layer; and affixing the microsphere layer with a protective dielectric layer or coating. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A method for making a mixed color, tunable light emitting diode (LED), comprising:
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providing an LED base pump light source having a light emitting surface that emits light having a wavelength of about 400 nm to about 480 nm; forming a plurality of green pixels on a region of the LED base pump by coating the region with green fluorescent microspheres; forming a plurality of red pixels on a region of the LED base pump by coating the region with red fluorescent microspheres; connecting the plurality of green pixels to one another and the plurality of red pixels to one another using a thin layer of gold metal; permitting a region of the light emitting surface to remain uncoated to create blue pixels, depositing a thin layer of silicon dioxide on inactive regions to prevent shorting of p-n junctions on the base LED pump; and depositing a thin layer of silicon dioxide on the pixels to form a protective cover on the mixed color, tunable light emitting diode.
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11. A white light emitting diode (LED), comprising:
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an LED base that emits light in the shorter wavelength region (about 400 nm to about 480 nm) as a pump source for the white light emitting LED; at least one layer of red and green fluorescent microspheres adhered to the LED base that emit red and green colored light in microscale regions when excited by the light emitted by the LED base such that the microscale regions are not resolvable by the unaided human eye and thus appear to emit white light. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A color mixed, color tunable light emitting diode (LED), comprising:
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an LED base pump source having a light emitting surface that emits light having a wavelength of about 400 nm to about 480 nm; a plurality of green pixels provided on a region of the LED base pump by coating green fluorescent microspheres onto the region; a plurality of red pixels provided on a region of the LED base pump by coating red fluorescent microspheres onto the region; a plurality of blue pixels on an uncoated region of the LED base pump; the green pixels connected to one another and the red pixels connected to one another using a thin layer of gold metal; a thin layer of silicon dioxide on inactive regions of the gold metal layer to prevent shorting of p-n junctions on the base LED pump; and a thin layer of silicon dioxide on the pixels to form a protective cover on the color tunable light emitting diode.
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