An organic down-converting material for white-light emission from hybrid LEDs.

Findlay, Neil J; Bruckbauer, Jochen; Inigo, Anto R; Breig, Benjamin; Arumugam, Sasikumar; Wallis, David J; Martin, Robert W; Skabara, Peter J · Adv Mater · 2014

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

A novel BODIPY-containing organic small molecule is synthesized and employed as a down-converting layer on a commercial blue light-emitting diode (LED). The resulting hybrid device demonstrates white-light emission under low-current operation, with color coordinates of (0.34, 0.31) and an efficacy of 13.6 lm/W; four times greater than the parent blue LED.