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Monte Carlo Simulation of Optical Properties of Phosphor-Screened Ultraviolet Light in a White Light-Emitting Device

Chien C. Chang, Ruey-Lin Chern, C. Chung Chang, Chin-Chou Chu, Jim Y. Chi¹, Jung-Chieh Su¹, I-Min Chan¹ and Jih-Fu Trevor Wang¹

(Received May 11, 2005; accepted June 2, 2005; published August 5, 2005)

In this paper, we study the optical properties of phosphor-screened ultraviolet light emitted by a quantum well through a chamber. The chamber contains randomly distributed red, blue and green phosphors, and is top-covered with a layer of omnidirectional photonic bandgap material. A Monte Carlo ray tracing method is developed to model the absorption, reflection and transmission for the excited radiation of the ultraviolet light as well as the visible light by the individual phosphor particles. The efficiency of emitting white light by synthesizing the visible light through the top substrate is investigated with respect to the weight ratio, the size of phosphor particles, the dimension of the chamber and the reflectivity of the side wall and the bottom substrate.

URL: http://jjap.jsap.jp/link?JJAP/44/6056/
DOI: 10.1143/JJAP.44.6056

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