US 7,432,647 B2
Light source having phosphor including divalent trivalent and tetravalent elements
Akira Nagatomi, Tokyo (Japan); Masahiro Gotoh, Tokyo (Japan); Kenji Sakane, Tokyo (Japan); and Shuji Yamashita, Tokyo (Japan)
Assigned to DOWA Electronics Materials Co., Ltd., Tokyo (Japan); and Nichia Corporation, Anan-Shi (Japan)
Filed on Sep. 02, 2004, as Appl. No. 10/932,108.
Claims priority of application No. 2004-203893 (JP), filed on Jul. 09, 2004.
Prior Publication US 2006/0006782 A1, Jan. 12, 2006
Int. Cl. H01J 1/62 (2006.01); H01J 63/04 (2006.01); C09K 11/02 (2006.01); C09K 11/08 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 313—503  [313/502; 252/301.4  R; 252/301.4  F] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A phosphor emitting a light when a monochromatic excitation light in a range from 250 nm to 550 nm is irradiated thereon,
wherein a luminescence intensity at an excitation wavelength where an intensity of a spectrum of emitting the light by absorbing the excitation light becomes maximum is defined as PH, a luminescence intensity at an excitation wavelength where the luminescence intensity becomes minimum is defined as PL, and PH/PL≤2, and the phosphor is represented by a composition formula MmAaBbOoNn:Z (note that the element M is one or more kind of divalent elements, the element A is one or more kind of trivalent elements, the element B is one or more kind of tetravalent elements, O is oxygen, N is nitrogen, and the element Z is an activator, satisfying o>O, n=2/3m+a+4/3b−2/3o).