Highly reflective TiO2 layer on AlN substrate: Enabling high quality laser lighting

Phosphors in glass films (PiFs) is considered ideal conversion materials for laser lighting, but heat dissipation issue is the main challenge limiting its development. Therefore, it is urgent to find more excellent heat dissipation materials. Herein, we proposed to use AlN with high thermal conductivity as the substrate, and innovatively introduced TiO2 coating to improve the interface reflection ability and solve the possible problems of shedding and cracking. After a series of optimizations, the LSN PiG-TiO2-AlN (PTA) color converter obtained a high thermal conductivity of 29W m−1k−1 and a low surface temperature. At an input power of 5.2W, the luminous efficiency can reach 175 lm/W and the relative initial intensity can still be maintained by 95.3% at 200 °C. Benefiting from the extremely strong heat dissipation capacity of the AlN substrate, the LSN PTA color converter maintains its relative luminous intensity at 95 % of the initial intensity after 24 h of continuous illumination, which is the best value recorded so far. In addition, LSN PTA is combined with CaAlSiN3:Eu2+ phosphor to achieve high-quality white light with a CRI of 82.5. The above results indicate that LSN PiG-TiO2-AlN color converters have a promising research prospect in the field of laser lighting.