Luminescent material, especially for LED application

1. A luminescent material, a phosphor for LED-applications, which is excitable in the UV-blue region from 380 to 470 nm, characterized by a Eu-doped host lattice with general composition MSi 2 O 2 N 2 , wherein M is at least one of an alkaline earth metal chosen from the group Ca, Sr, Ba and with a proportion of Eu from 0.1 to 30 mol % of M.

2. The UV-blue excitable luminescent material according to claim 1 , wherein M is calcium in order to achieve green emission.

3. The UV-blue excitable luminescent material according to claim 1 , wherein M is a mixture of at least two of these metals.

4. The UV-blue excitable luminescent material according to claim 1 , wherein M comprises in addition Zn.

5. The UV-blue excitable luminescent material according to claim 1 , wherein the host material is further doped with Mn.

6. A light source with a UV-blue excitable luminescent material according to claim 1 .

7. A light source with a UV-blue excitable luminescent material according to claim 1 , wherein the primary emitted light is blue and the UV-blue excitable luminescent material is combined with at least one other phosphor, in order to convert part of the primary emitted light into secondary emitted light of longer wavelength resulting in emitting white light.

8. A light source with a UV-blue excitable luminescent material according to claim 1 , wherein the primary emitted radiation is UV and the UV-blue excitable luminescent material is combined with at least one other phosphor, in order to convert part of the primary emitted radiation into secondary emitted light of longer wavelength resulting in emitting white light.

9. The light source according to claim 6 , wherein the light source is an illuminating device with at least one LED.

10. The light source according to claim 7 , wherein the other phosphor is a red emitting phosphor.

11. The light source according to claim 8 , wherein the other phosphor is a red emitting phosphor.

12. The UV-blue excitable luminescent material according to claim 4 , wherein M comprises in addition Zn in a amount of no greater than 40 mol % but greater than 0 mol %.

13. The UV-blue excitable luminescent material according to claim 5 , wherein the-amount of Mn is greater than 0 mol % but no greater than 50 mol% of the Eu doping.

14. A luminescent material, a phosphor for LED-applications, which is excitable in the UV-blue region from 380 to 470 nm, characterized by a Eu-doped host lattice with general composition M(Si 1−x′ +Ge x′ ) 2 O 2 N 2 , wherein M is at least one of an alkaline earth metal chosen from the group Ca, Sr, Ba and with a proportion of Eu from 0.1 to 30 mol % of M, and x′ is greater than 0 but no greater than 1.

15. The luminescent material of claim 14 wherein x′ is no greater than 0.25.

16. A luminescent material, a phosphor for LED-applications, which is excitable in the UV-blue region from 380 to 470 nm, characterized by a Eu-doped host lattice with general composition MSi 2−x″ Al x″ O 2+x″ N 2−x″ , wherein M is at least one of an alkaline earth metal chosen from the group Ca, Sr, Ba and with a proportion of Eu from 0.1 to 30 mol % of M, and x″ is greater than 0 but no greater than 0.4.