Improvement of color-rendering characteristics of white light emitting diodes by using red quantum dot films

Red quantum dot (QD) films were applied to a conventional white light-emitting-diodes (LEDs) module consisting of 72 LEDs for improving color-rendering properties. Total three QD films with different QD concentrations, two diffuser plates, and six optical configurations were combined and investigated to find an optimized optical structure. QD films formed a red peak near 630 nm in the spectrum which significantly increased the overall color rendering index (CRI). The lateral optical cavity formed by a vertical QD wall and the vertical cavity formed by the diffuser plate and the reflection film in the lighting module played an important role in the improvement of the color-rendering properties. Especially, the adoption of the lateral optical cavity formed by the QD wall was an effective way to improve both efficiency and color rendering properties of the LED lighting. The present result suggests a new possibility of designing high-CRI LED light sources whose color properties can be tuned easily by simply applying and relocating QD components in conventional LED lightings.