The present invention discloses a red light and near-infrared light-emitting material and a light-emitting device. The red light and near-infrared light-emitting material contains a compound represented by a molecular formula, xA.sub.2O.sub.3.yIn.sub.2O.sub.3.bR.sub.2O.sub.3, wherein the element A is Sc and/or Ga; the element R is one or two of Cr, Yb, Nd or Er and necessarily includes Cr; and 0.001≤x≤1, 0.001≤y≤1, 0.001≤b≤0.2, and 0.001≤b/(x+y)≤0.2. The light-emitting material can be excited by a technically mature blue light source to emit light with a high-intensity wide-spectrum or multiple spectra. Compared with existing materials, the light-emitting material has higher luminescent intensity. The light-emitting device uses an LED chip to combine an infrared light-emitting material and a visible light light-emitting material. In this way, the same LED chip can emit near-infrared light and visible light at the same time, which greatly simplifies the packaging process and reduces the packaging cost.

An object of the present invention is to provide an infrared light-emitting phosphor which emits light in a wavelength range where the sensitivity of a detector is high by combination with a semiconductor light-emitting element that emits light in the visible light region, and to provide an infrared light-emitting device using the infrared light-emitting phosphor. The object can be achieved with a light-emitting device including a semiconductor light-emitting element that emits ultraviolet light or visible light and a phosphor that absorbs ultraviolet light or visible light emitted from the semiconductor light-emitting element and emits light in the infrared region, wherein an emission peak wavelength in the infrared region of the phosphor emitting in the infrared region is from 750 to 1,050 nm, and the half width of an emission peak waveform is more than 50 nm.

The purpose of the present invention is to increase the amount of near-infrared light emitted by a phosphor excited by near-ultraviolet light to blue light. The present invention relates to a phosphor containing gallium oxide Ga.sub.2O.sub.3 as the base composition, one or two elements selected from Cr and Fe as the light-emitting center, and aluminum fluoride AlF.sub.3 as the flux.

A light emitting device includes a first wavelength converter that converts the primary light into a first wavelength-converted light; and a second wavelength converter that converts the primary light into a second wavelength-converted light. The first wavelength-converted light is a fluorescence having a light component over an entire wavelength range of 700 nm or more to 800 nm or less and having a peak where a fluorescence intensity shows a maximum value in a wavelength range of 700 nm or more, and the second wavelength-converted light is a fluorescence having a peak where a fluorescence intensity shows a maximum value in a wavelength range of 380 nm or more to less than 700 nm. The light emitting device emits a first output light including the first wavelength-converted light and a second output light including the second wavelength-converted light alternately in time.

A light-emitting device includes: a light source that radiates primary light; and a first phosphor that absorbs the primary light and converts the primary light into first wavelength-converted light having a longer wavelength than the primary light, wherein the primary light is laser light, the first wavelength-converted light includes fluorescence based on electron energy transition of Cr.sup.3+, and a fluorescence spectrum of the first wavelength-converted light has a maximum fluorescence intensity value in region of a wavelength exceeding 710 nm.

A value document has a security marking in the form of two luminescent substances whose the emission spectra partially overlap in a primary emission range. The emission spectra have a degree of overlap of less than 80% and more than 5%, wherein the luminescent substances have different individual decay times in the primary emission range. The individual decay times of the luminescent substances differ from each other by more than 50% with reference to the shortest individual decay time.

The present invention improves the performance of an analyzer and facilitates the maintenance of the analyzer. This fluorescent body is produced by firing a raw material which contains: an alumina; and at least one among Fe, Cr, Bi, Tl, Ce, Tb, Eu, and Mn, wherein the raw material contains 6.1-15.9 wt % of sodium with respect to the total amount of the raw material.

An object is to provide a new type of near-infrared ray-emitting phosphor which exhibits excellent emission intensity. A near-infrared ray-emitting phosphor is represented by a general formula, (Y,Lu,Gd).sub.3-x-y (Ga,Al,Sc).sub.5O.sub.12:(Cr.sub.x,(Yb,Nd).sub.y) (0.05<x<0.3, 0≤y<0.3).

Embodiments of the invention include an infrared-emitting phosphor comprising (La,Gd).sub.3Ga.sub.5-x-yAl.sub.xSiO.sub.14:Cr.sub.y, where 0≤x≤1 and 0.02≤y≤0.08. In some embodiments, the infrared-emitting phosphor is a calcium gallogermanate material. In some embodiments, the infrared-emitting phosphor is used with a second infrared-emitting phosphor. The second infrared-emitting phosphor is one or more chromium doped garnets of composition Gd.sub.3-x1Sc.sub.2-x2-yLu.sub.x1+x2Ga.sub.3O.sub.12:Cr.sub.y, where 0.02≤x1≤0.25, 0.05≤x2≤0.3 and 0.04≤y≤0.12.

A wavelength converting structure is disclosed, the wavelength converting structure including a spinel type SWIR phosphor material having emission wavelengths in the range of 1000 to 1700 nm, the SWIR phosphor material including AE.sub.1-x-zA.sub.z+0.5(x-y)D.sub.2+0.5(x-y)-z-u E.sub.zO.sub.4:Ni.sub.y,Cr.sub.u where AE=Mg, Zn, Co, or Be, or mixtures thereof, A=Li, Na, Cu, or Ag, or mixtures thereof, D=Ga, Al, B, In, or Sc, or mixtures thereof, and E=Si, Ge, Sn, Ti, Zr, or Hf, or mixtures thereof; where 0≤x≤1, 0<y≤0.1, 0≤z≤1, 0≤u≤0.2.