LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME AND APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE

• US 20110204400A1
• Filed: 02/14/2011
• Published: 08/25/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 02/19/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Koizumi, Hiroshi, Sakurai, Naoaki, Yamabe, Junsei, Okada, Yasuhide
• Application Number:
  US13/026,631
• Publication Number:
  US 20110204400A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 257/98
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2224/32245 the item being metallic
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2224/48091 Arched
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2224/48247 connecting the wire to a bond pad of the item
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2224/73265 Layer and wire connectors
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2924/00 Indexing scheme for arrangements or methods for connecting or disconnecting semiconductor or solid-state bodies as covered by H01L24/00
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2924/00012 Relevant to the scope of the group, the symbol of which is combined with the symbol of this group
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2924/00014 the subject-matter covered by the group, the symbol of which is combined with the symbol of this group, being disclosed without further technical details
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2933/0041 relating to wavelength conversion elements
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 33/504 Elements with two or more wavelength conversion materials
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 33/10 Apparatus or processes specially adapted to the manufacture of electroluminescent light sources
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 33/145 Arrangements of the electroluminescent material

Abstract

According to one embodiment, a light emitting device includes a package member, a light emitting element provided in the package member, a first phosphor layer and a second phosphor layer. A first phosphor layer is provided on the light emitting element and has a first phosphor. A second phosphor layer is provided on the first phosphor layer and has a second phosphor. A luminescent efficiency of the first phosphor is higher than a luminescent efficiency of the second phosphor.

Claims

1. A light emitting device, comprising:

a package member;

a light emitting element provided in the package member;

a first phosphor layer provided on the light emitting element and having a first phosphor; and

a second phosphor layer provided above the first phosphor layer and having a second phosphor,

a luminescent efficiency of the first phosphor being higher than a luminescent efficiency of the second phosphor.

2. The device according to claim 1, further comprising a third phosphor layer provided on the light emitting element, the third phosphor layer containing a third phosphor.

3. The device according to claim 2, wherein the luminescent efficiency of the first phosphor is higher than the luminescent efficiency of the third phosphor.

4. A method for manufacturing a light emitting device including a package member, a light emitting element provided in the package member, a first phosphor layer provided on the light emitting element and having a first phosphor, and a second phosphor layer provided on the first phosphor layer and having a second phosphor, the method comprising:

determining previously a dependence property of chromaticities of a mixed light emitted from the light emitting element, the first phosphor, and the second phosphor on a wavelength and an intensity of a light emitted from the light emitting element, a first total weight of the first phosphor, or a second total weight of the second phosphor;

measuring the wavelength and the intensity of the light emitted from the light emitting element;

determining the first total weight and the second total weight individually based on the dependence property so as to obtain predetermined chromaticities of the mixed light including the measured wavelength and the measured intensity;

covering at least a part of the light emitting element with the first phosphor layer containing the first phosphor of the first total weight; and

covering at least a part of the first phosphor layer with the second phosphor layer containing the second phosphor of the second total weight.

5. The method according to claim 4, wherein the wavelength of the light emitted from the light emitting element is between not less than 440 nanometers and not more than 460 nanometers.

6. The method according to claim 4, further comprising:

forming a third phosphor layer containing a third phosphor on the second phosphor layer.

7. The method according to claim 6, wherein the dependence property of chromaticities of the mixed light emitted from the light emitting element, the first phosphor, the second phosphor and the third phosphor on the wavelength and the emission intensity of the light emitted from the light emitting element, the first total weight of the first phosphor, the second total weight of the second phosphor, or a third total weight of the third phosphor is determined previously,

the first total weight, the second total weight, and the third total weight are determined individually based on the dependence property so as to obtain the predetermined chromaticities of the mixed light, and

at least a part of the second phosphor layer is covered with the third phosphor layer containing the third phosphor of the third total weight.

8. The method according to claim 7, wherein the wavelength of the light emitted from the light emitting element is between not less than 380 nanometers and not more than 400 nanometers.

9. The method according to claim 7, wherein, when a sensitivity dependence on the wavelength of the light emitted from the light emitting element varies among the first phosphor, the second phosphor, and the third phosphor, a total weight of a phosphor with the increasing sensitivity dependence is adjusted preferentially.

10. The method according to claim 7, wherein a phosphor in at least one of the first phosphor layer, the second phosphor layer, and the third phosphor layer is made to be accumulated on a side of the light emitting element after forming any of the first phosphor layer, the second phosphor layer, and the third phosphor layer.

11. The method according to claim 6, wherein a recess portion of the package member is filled with a resin member not containing any of the first phosphor, the second phosphor and the third phosphor before covering at least a part of the light emitting element with the first phosphor layer.

12. The method according to claim 11, wherein a specific weight of a resin member having the first phosphor dispersed is lower than a specific weight of the resin member not containing any of the first phosphor, the second phosphor and the third phosphor.

13. The method according to claim 4, wherein wavelengths and intensities of light in three colors are measured in the determining the dependence property.

14. The method according to claim 13, wherein the three colors are red, green, and blue.

15. An apparatus for manufacturing a light emitting device including a package member, a light emitting element provided in the package member, a first phosphor layer provided on the light emitting element and having a first phosphor, and a second phosphor layer provided on the first phosphor layer and having a second phosphor, the apparatus comprising:

a memorizing unit configured to store a dependence property of chromaticities of a mixed light emitted from the light emitting element, the first phosphor, and the second phosphor on a wavelength and an intensity of a light emitted from the light emitting element, a first total weight of the first phosphor, or a second total weight of the second phosphor;

a measuring unit configured to measure the wavelength and the intensity of the light emitted from the light emitting element;

a determining unit configured to determine the first total weight and the second total weight individually based on the dependence property so as to obtain predetermined chromaticities of the mixed light including the measured wavelength and the measured intensity;

a first covering unit configured to cover at least a part of the light emitting element with a first phosphor layer containing the first phosphor of the first total weight; and

a second covering unit configured to cover at least a part of the first phosphor layer with a second phosphor layer containing the second phosphor of the second total weight.

16. The apparatus according to claim 15, further comprising:

a covering unit configured to cover a third phosphor layer containing a third phosphor on the second phosphor layer.

17. The apparatus according to claim 15, further comprising:

a memorizing unit configured to store the dependence property of chromaticities of the mixed light emitted from the light emitting element, the first phosphor, the second phosphor, and the third phosphor on the wavelength or the intensity of the light emitted from the light emitting element, the first total weight of the first phosphor, the second total weight of the second phosphor, or a third total weight of the third phosphor previously;

a determining unit configured to determine the first total weight, the second total weight, and the third total weight individually based on the dependence property so as to the obtain predetermined chromaticities of the mixed light; and

a covering unit configured to cover at least a part of the second phosphor layer with a third phosphor layer containing the third phosphor of the third total weight.