EP1412098A2 - Encapsulated long life electroluminescent phosphor - Google Patents
Encapsulated long life electroluminescent phosphorInfo
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- EP1412098A2 EP1412098A2 EP00978609A EP00978609A EP1412098A2 EP 1412098 A2 EP1412098 A2 EP 1412098A2 EP 00978609 A EP00978609 A EP 00978609A EP 00978609 A EP00978609 A EP 00978609A EP 1412098 A2 EP1412098 A2 EP 1412098A2
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- phosphor
- emission spectra
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- electroluminescent
- electroluminescent phosphor
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- OAICVXFJPJFONN-UHFFFAOYSA-N Phosphorus Chemical compound [P] OAICVXFJPJFONN-UHFFFAOYSA-N 0.000 title claims abstract description 53
- 238000000034 method Methods 0.000 claims abstract description 27
- 238000000295 emission spectrum Methods 0.000 claims abstract description 26
- 230000008569 process Effects 0.000 claims abstract description 23
- 239000011248 coating agent Substances 0.000 claims abstract description 22
- 238000000576 coating method Methods 0.000 claims abstract description 21
- 239000000203 mixture Substances 0.000 claims abstract description 8
- CBENFWSGALASAD-UHFFFAOYSA-N Ozone Chemical compound [O-][O+]=O CBENFWSGALASAD-UHFFFAOYSA-N 0.000 claims abstract description 7
- QVGXLLKOCUKJST-UHFFFAOYSA-N atomic oxygen Chemical compound [O] QVGXLLKOCUKJST-UHFFFAOYSA-N 0.000 claims abstract description 7
- 239000001301 oxygen Substances 0.000 claims abstract description 7
- 229910052760 oxygen Inorganic materials 0.000 claims abstract description 7
- 238000004519 manufacturing process Methods 0.000 claims abstract description 5
- 239000002243 precursor Substances 0.000 claims abstract description 5
- 230000002939 deleterious effect Effects 0.000 claims abstract description 4
- 230000008859 change Effects 0.000 claims abstract description 3
- 239000010949 copper Substances 0.000 claims description 11
- RYGMFSIKBFXOCR-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copper Chemical compound [Cu] RYGMFSIKBFXOCR-UHFFFAOYSA-N 0.000 claims description 7
- 229910052802 copper Inorganic materials 0.000 claims description 7
- JLTRXTDYQLMHGR-UHFFFAOYSA-N trimethylaluminium Chemical group C[Al](C)C JLTRXTDYQLMHGR-UHFFFAOYSA-N 0.000 claims description 3
- 229910052984 zinc sulfide Inorganic materials 0.000 description 6
- 229910052782 aluminium Inorganic materials 0.000 description 5
- XAGFODPZIPBFFR-UHFFFAOYSA-N aluminium Chemical compound [Al] XAGFODPZIPBFFR-UHFFFAOYSA-N 0.000 description 5
- 239000000463 material Substances 0.000 description 5
- IJGRMHOSHXDMSA-UHFFFAOYSA-N Atomic nitrogen Chemical compound N#N IJGRMHOSHXDMSA-UHFFFAOYSA-N 0.000 description 4
- 239000005083 Zinc sulfide Substances 0.000 description 3
- XLYOFNOQVPJJNP-UHFFFAOYSA-N water Chemical compound O XLYOFNOQVPJJNP-UHFFFAOYSA-N 0.000 description 3
- 229910001868 water Inorganic materials 0.000 description 3
- DRDVZXDWVBGGMH-UHFFFAOYSA-N zinc;sulfide Chemical compound [S-2].[Zn+2] DRDVZXDWVBGGMH-UHFFFAOYSA-N 0.000 description 3
- OGIIWTRTOXDWEH-UHFFFAOYSA-N [O].[O-][O+]=O Chemical compound [O].[O-][O+]=O OGIIWTRTOXDWEH-UHFFFAOYSA-N 0.000 description 2
- 239000012190 activator Substances 0.000 description 2
- 239000012530 fluid Substances 0.000 description 2
- 230000004907 flux Effects 0.000 description 2
- 229910052757 nitrogen Inorganic materials 0.000 description 2
- ZAMOUSCENKQFHK-UHFFFAOYSA-N Chlorine atom Chemical compound [Cl] ZAMOUSCENKQFHK-UHFFFAOYSA-N 0.000 description 1
- 238000010521 absorption reaction Methods 0.000 description 1
- PNEYBMLMFCGWSK-UHFFFAOYSA-N aluminium oxide Inorganic materials [O-2].[O-2].[O-2].[Al+3].[Al+3] PNEYBMLMFCGWSK-UHFFFAOYSA-N 0.000 description 1
- FFBHFFJDDLITSX-UHFFFAOYSA-N benzyl N-[2-hydroxy-4-(3-oxomorpholin-4-yl)phenyl]carbamate Chemical compound OC1=C(NC(=O)OCC2=CC=CC=C2)C=CC(=C1)N1CCOCC1=O FFBHFFJDDLITSX-UHFFFAOYSA-N 0.000 description 1
- 238000006243 chemical reaction Methods 0.000 description 1
- 238000005229 chemical vapour deposition Methods 0.000 description 1
- 239000000460 chlorine Substances 0.000 description 1
- 229910052801 chlorine Inorganic materials 0.000 description 1
- 238000001816 cooling Methods 0.000 description 1
- 230000007423 decrease Effects 0.000 description 1
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- 239000007789 gas Substances 0.000 description 1
- 150000004820 halides Chemical class 0.000 description 1
- 238000010438 heat treatment Methods 0.000 description 1
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- 239000012528 membrane Substances 0.000 description 1
- 229910044991 metal oxide Inorganic materials 0.000 description 1
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Classifications
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- C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
- C09—DYES; PAINTS; POLISHES; NATURAL RESINS; ADHESIVES; COMPOSITIONS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; APPLICATIONS OF MATERIALS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- C09K—MATERIALS FOR MISCELLANEOUS APPLICATIONS, NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE
- C09K11/00—Luminescent, e.g. electroluminescent, chemiluminescent materials
- C09K11/02—Use of particular materials as binders, particle coatings or suspension media therefor
- C09K11/025—Use of particular materials as binders, particle coatings or suspension media therefor non-luminescent particle coatings or suspension media
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- C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
- C09—DYES; PAINTS; POLISHES; NATURAL RESINS; ADHESIVES; COMPOSITIONS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; APPLICATIONS OF MATERIALS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- C09K—MATERIALS FOR MISCELLANEOUS APPLICATIONS, NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE
- C09K11/00—Luminescent, e.g. electroluminescent, chemiluminescent materials
- C09K11/08—Luminescent, e.g. electroluminescent, chemiluminescent materials containing inorganic luminescent materials
- C09K11/58—Luminescent, e.g. electroluminescent, chemiluminescent materials containing inorganic luminescent materials containing copper, silver or gold
- C09K11/582—Chalcogenides
- C09K11/584—Chalcogenides with zinc or cadmium
Definitions
- TECHNICAL FIELD This application relates to a process for producing an electroluminescent phosphor, and more particularly, to a process that produces an electroluminescent phosphor with a desired emission spectra.
- Electroluminescent (hereinafter EL) phosphors are used for backlighting in LCD's, in copying machines, for backlighting membrane switches, for automotive dashboard and control switch illumination, for automotive exterior body lighting, for aircraft style information panels, for aircraft information lighting, and for emergency egress lighting.
- EL Electroluminescent
- U.S. Pat. Nos. 3,014,873; 3,076,767; 4,859,361; 5,009,808 and 5,1 10,499 relate to methods for producing EL phosphors. Since EL phosphors are sensitive to moisture it is not uncommon for the phosphors to be coated with a moisture-resistant coating of a metal oxide such as alumina.
- Such coating processes have involved reacting the phosphor, via a chemical vapor deposition process, with a coating agent such as, for example, trimethylaluminum and water vapor.
- a coating agent such as, for example, trimethylaluminum and water vapor.
- An example of such a coated phosphor is shown as Sample Number CJ564 in TABLE I and as CJ30 in TABLE II.
- the phosphor coating in the first instance, contains 4.4 weight percent (hereinafter wgt. %) aluminum, has a Y color coordinate of 0.199 on the C.I.E. Chomaticity Diagram (X value, 0.158) and a half-life of 195 hours and, in the second instance, 4.0 wgt.% aluminum, a Y value of 0.203 and a half-life of 256 hours.
- the half-life refers to that period of time when the brightness of the phosphor decreases to V of its brightness at 24 hours.
- a different coating process having many advantages over the TMA/water process comprises reacting a coating agent such as TMA with an oxygen-ozone mixture.
- This latter process is water-free; however, in some instances this process produces undesired emission changes in the phosphor.
- Even though such phosphors have achieved some commercial success in areas where, for example, brightness might be more desirable than a particular emission spectra, it would be an advance in the art to provide a process for achieving a desired emission spectra in a phosphor having a moisture-sensitizing coating applied by an oxygen-ozone process.
- This invention achieves these and other objectives, in one aspect of the invention, by providing a process for making an electroluminescent phosphor having a given emission spectra A, which comprises the steps of manufacturing a beginning electroluminescent phosphor having an emission spectra B, different than A.
- This beginning phosphor has applied thereto a coating to increase the resistance of the beginning phosphor to the deleterious effects of moisture while simultaneously changing the emission spectra of the beginning phosphor from B to emission spectra A.
- the process is water-free and comprises reacting a coating agent with a coating precursor and a mixture of oxygen and ozone.
- Utilization of this method not only provides a phosphor with a desired emission and moisture protection, but, surprisingly, greatly increases the life.
- This invention provides a process for producing an electroluminescent phosphor that has a commercially desirable emission spectra, moisture protection, long life and high brightness.
- the invention is especially suited for zinc sulfide, copper activated phosphors or other zinc sulfide phosphors where copper is a co-activator, for example, with chlorine.
- control phosphors having Sample Numbers of ELB849, ELB875, and ELB826.
- a process for making an electroluminescent phosphor having a given emission spectra A which comprises first, manufacturing a beginning electroluminescent phosphor having an emission spectra B, different than A.
- This beginning phosphor has applied thereto a coating to increase the resistance of the beginning phosphor to the deleterious effects of moisture while simultaneously changing the emission spectra of the beginning phosphor from B to emission spectra A.
- the process is water-free and comprises reacting a coating agent with a coating precursor and a mixture of oxygen and ozone.
- a beginning ZnS.Cu phosphor was prepared by increasing the normal amount of copper contained therein, from 0.032 wgt.% to 0.039 wgt.% (as determined by atomic absorption analysis). This is a significant increase and raised the Y coordinate to about 0.250 while leaving the X coordinate substantially unaffected.
- the phosphor composition of this invention was prepared from materials as follows:
- the beginning phosphor was produced from the above-cited materials by the standard method of heating the zinc sulfide in a furnace to an elevated temperature in the presence of the copper activator and halide fluxes to achieve an electroluminescent phosphor, cooling the phosphor to ambient temperature and washing the phosphor to remove the flux. The resulting ZnS.Cu phosphor was then dried. Phosphors created by this method are generally known.
- modified Type 813 i.e., a phosphor having an increased amount of
- TABLE II a standard Type 60 0 production lot (CJ30) which is a Type 813 phosphor treated with TMA/H 2 O coating process 1 is included in TABLE II for comparison. While the flow rates of nitrogen through the TMA 2 container were maintained at 0.75 1/minute, rates of nitrogen flow at the bottom of the reactor 3 were kept at a total of 3.75 1/minute. Also, the oxygen/ozone gas mixture was transported 4 into the reaction vessel at a flow rate of 4.6 1/minute. The resulting data on the coated 5 phosphors are shown in TABLE II. 6 TABLE II
- the initial brightness 1 at 24 hours of TH92A (WNE600) lamp was measured at 15 foot lamberts, which is 40% greater than that obtained with the standard CJ30 lot that was prepared by the TMA/H 2 0 process.
- the half-lives of the lamps were enhanced more than 150%, for example, 256 hours with the standard lot CJ30 versus 663 hours with Lot TH92A.
- the greater the amount of aluminum deposit i.e. the greater the coating thickness, the longer the half-life.
- the half-life of TH93 (NE600) with a coating weight of 4.1 % aluminum was estimated at 1295 hours which is about five times the 256 hours of the standard DJ30 lot.
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US16661999P | 1999-11-19 | 1999-11-19 | |
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PCT/US2000/031216 WO2001036559A2 (en) | 1999-11-19 | 2000-11-15 | Encapsulated long life electroluminescent phosphor |
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JP (1) | JP2003535153A (en) |
KR (1) | KR100498686B1 (en) |
CN (1) | CN1256185C (en) |
AU (1) | AU1605901A (en) |
CA (1) | CA2381534A1 (en) |
HU (1) | HUP0500636A3 (en) |
WO (1) | WO2001036559A2 (en) |
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US7698842B2 (en) | 2002-01-31 | 2010-04-20 | Volkswagen Ag | Sign, especially a number plate for a motor vehicle |
US7833437B2 (en) | 2006-01-26 | 2010-11-16 | Global Tungsten & Powders Corp. | Moisture-resistant electroluminescent phosphor with high initial brightness and method of making |
US8298666B2 (en) * | 2006-01-26 | 2012-10-30 | Global Tungsten & Powders Corp. | Moisture resistant electroluminescent phosphor with high initial brightness and method of making |
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