The worldwide popularization of white-light-emitting diode (WLED) lighting brings about chronic blue-light exposure, which has severe negative impacts on human health and circadian rhythm. The blue-light hazard can be readily minimized by developing violet LED chip (λ em ≈ 400 nm)-pumped sustainable and human-centric WLED lighting. However, the development of sustainable healthy lighting is stringently restricted because few blue phosphors can be efficiently pumped by violet LED chips. Herein, we report a novel Na 3 KMg 7 (PO 4 ) 6 :Eu 2+ blue phosphor with high quantum efficiency (>90%) and color purity (95.4%), which can efficiently convert violet light to blue emission. A crystal-site engineering approach and density functional theory (DFT) prove that the narrow-band (FWHM = 41 nm) emission of the Na 3 KMg 7 (PO 4 ) 6 :Eu 2+ phosphor originates from the accommodation of Eu 2+ dopants in the Na(2) site. More importantly, the Na 3 KMg 7 (PO 4 ) 6 :Eu 2+ phosphor shows zero-thermal-quenching luminescence due to a large band gap (>6 eV). By depositing the commercial Sr 2 Si 5 N 8 :Eu 2+ red phosphor, β-SiAlON:Eu 2+ green phosphor, and as-synthesized Na 3 KMg 7 (PO 4 ) 6 :Eu 2+ blue phosphor on a 400 nm violet LED chip, the prototypical WLED can emit fullspectrum warm white light (R a = 94.3) with significantly diminished blue-light intensity. The outstanding Na 3 KMg 7 (PO 4 ) 6 :Eu 2+ blue phosphor reported here can speed up the industrialization of human-centric WLED lighting.
Exploring high efficiency narrow-band phosphors is an important enabler for the wide color gamut, high color rendition and visual luminous efficacy of the illumination and display devices. However, rare earth...
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