Data-Driven Discovery of Full-Visible-Spectrum Phosphor

The development of extra-broadband phosphors is essential for next-generation illumination with better color experience. In this work, we report the discovery of the first-known Eu 2+ -activated full-visible-spectrum phosphor, Sr 2 AlSi 2 O 6 N:Eu 2+, identified by combining data mining of high-throughput density functional theory calculations and experimental characterization. Excited by UV-light-emitting diodes (LEDs), Sr 2 AlSi 2 O 6 N:Eu 2+ shows a superbroad emission with a bandwidth of 230 nm, the broadest emission bandwidth ever reported, and has excellent thermal quenching resistance (88% intensity at 150 °C). A prototype white LED utilizing only this full-visible-spectrum phosphor exhibits superior color quality ( R a = 97, R 9 = 91), outperforming commercial tricolor phosphor-converted LEDs. These findings not only show great promise of Sr 2 AlSi 2 O 6 N:Eu 2+ as a single white emitter but also open up in silico design of full-visible-spectra phosphor in a single-phase material to address the reabsorption energy loss in commercial tricolor phosphor mixture.