IP Library Granted Patent US 7,345,413
Granted Patent B2
US 7,345,413 · App. 10/774,626 · Granted Mar 18, 2008

Coated luminescent material and light-emitting device having such a luminescent material

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Patent No.
US 7,345,413
App. No.
10/774,626
Granted
Mar 18, 2008
Kind
B2
Abstract

A coated luminescent material having a luminescent material powder formed by grains, the luminescent grains being coated, and the coating being at most 5 nm, preferably at most 2 nm.

Claims (20)

1. A light-emitting device, having at least one radiation source which emits essentially within the range of from 150 to 600 nm, and a luminescent material which converts the light from the radiation source at least partially into longer-wave radiation, the luminescent material being formed by particles which are coated by a coating layer, wherein a coating material for the coating layer is selected from at least one of the following groups:

alkylsilyl halides of the stoichiometry R 2 SiX 2 , wherein R=alkyl and X=Cl or Br;

arylsilyl halides of the stoichiometry Ar 3 SiX or Ar 2 SiX 2 , wherein Ar=phenyl and X=halogen;

phenyl-substituted silicon alkoxides;

alkyl halides of the type R—X, wherein R=aliphatic residue and X=halogen; and

acyl halides of the type

wherein R=aliphatic residue and X=halogen.

2. The light-emitting device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the coating layer has a thickness of at most 5 nm.

3. The light-emitting device as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the coating layer has a thickness of less than or equal to 3 nm.

4. The light-emitting device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the luminescent material is selected from the group: garnets, chlorosilicates, thiogallates and aluminates, nitridosilicates and vanadates.

5. The light-emitting device as claimed in claim 4 , wherein the luminescent material contains rare earth metals as constituents.

6. The light-emitting device as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the coating layer thickness is between 0.1 and 2 nm.

7. The light-emitting device as claimed in claim 2 , wherein a second layer of flame-hydrolytically produced metal oxides is applied to the coating layer.

8. The light-emitting device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the radiation source is a UV-emitting LED, which emits with a peak wavelength in the range from 300 to 420 nm.

9. The light-emitting device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the radiation source is a blue-emitting LED, which emits with a peak wavelength in the range of from 425 to 490 nm.

10. The light-emitting device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the radiation source is a high-pressure discharge lamp, which emits essentially in the range of from 200 to 490 nm.

11. The light-emitting device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the radiation source is an excimer discharge device, which emits essentially in the range of from 150 to 320 nm.

12. The light-emitting device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein in R—X, X=Cl or Br.

13. The light-emitting device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein in

X=Cl or Br.

Assignments (2)
MERGER Recorded Feb 2, 2010
From: PATENT TREUHAND GESELLSCHAFT FUR ELEKTRISCHE GLUHLAMPEN MBH
To: OSRAM GESELLSCHAFT MIT BESCHRANKTER HAFTUNG
Reel/Frame 023882/0382 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 9, 2004
From: BRAUNE, BERT; ZACHAU, MARTIN; ZWASCHKA, FRANZ
To: PATENT-TREUHAND-GESELLSCHAFT FUR ELEKTRISCHE GLUHLAMPEN MBH; OSRAM OPTO SEMICONDUCTORS GMBH
Reel/Frame 014976/0039 →