Provided is a light emitting device, including a light emitting element having a light emission peak wavelength in a range of 380 nm or more and 500 nm or less, and a wavelength converting member including a ceramic composite including an inorganic fluorescent material having a light emission peak wavelength in a range of 510 nm or more and 570 nm or less and an inorganic oxide, and a translucent thin film having a physical film thickness in a range of 82 nm or more and 140 nm or less and a refractive index smaller than the refractive index of the ceramic composite, disposed on a light emission side of the ceramic composite, the translucent thin film including a fluoride containing at least one kind of an element selected from the group consisting of an alkali metal element, an alkaline earth metal element, and a Group 13 metal element.

According to one embodiment, a white light source includes a combination of a light emitting diode and phosphors. One of the phosphors is at least a cerium activated yttrium aluminum garnet-based phosphor. There is no light emission spectrum peak at which a ratio of a largest maximum value to a minimum value is greater than 1.9. The largest maximum value is largest among at least one maximum value present in a wavelength range of 400 nm to 500 nm in a light emission spectrum of white light emitted from the white light source. The minimum value is adjacent to the largest maximum value in a longer wavelength side of the light emission spectrum.

A light emitting device including a housing including walls defining a cavity having one side thereof opened, a light emitter to emit light having a peak wavelength in a blue wavelength band and including first and second light emitting chips, a reflective region in the housing to reflect light, and a wavelength conversion layer disposed on the light emitter and including a first wavelength converter and a second wavelength converter to emit light having different peak wavelengths from each other, in which the first wavelength converter has a first excitation peak wavelength and the second wavelength converter has a second excitation peak wavelength, and the second wavelength converter includes a fluoride-based red phosphor represented by A.sub.2MF.sub.6:Mn.sup.4+, where A is one of Li, Na, K, Ba, Rb, Cs, Mg, Ca, Se, and Zn, and M is one of Ti, Si, Zr, Sn, and Ge.

The present invention provides a luminous body, and light emitting film, light emitting diode and light emitting device including the same. The luminous body can include a plurality of emission moieties each including an inorganic emission particle and a coating layer surrounding a surface of the inorganic emission particle, and an encapsulation moiety connected to the coating layer and surrounding the plurality of emission moieties. The present invention further provides a light emitting film, a liquid crystal display device, a light emitting diode package, a light emitting diode and a light emitting display device including the luminous body.

Provided are a display apparatus and a method of manufacturing the same. The display apparatus includes a support substrate, a driving layer provided on the support substrate and including a driving element configured to apply power to a pixel electrode, and a light-emitting layer provided on the driving layer.

A white light emitting device may include a substrate, first LEDs disposed on the substrate, a first photoluminescence material disposed over the first LEDs, second LEDs disposed on the substrate, where the first LEDs and the second LEDs emit blue light at substantially the same wavelength, a second photoluminescence material disposed over the second LEDs, the second photoluminescence material having a composition different from the first photoluminescence material, where an emission product of the white light emitting device is a combination of light emitted from (i) a combination of the first LEDs and the first photoluminescence material, and (ii) a combination of the second LEDs and the second photoluminescence material, and a dimming control connected to the first LEDs and to the second LEDs; where the dimming control is actuable to modify the emission product.

A β-sialon phosphor that is a solid solution of europium, in which D.sub.50 is 7.0 μm or more and 20.0 μm or less and (D.sub.50−D.sub.10)/D.sub.50 is 0.60 or less, where D.sub.50 is a 50% area diameter of primary particles of the β-sialon phosphor, and D.sub.10 is a 10% area diameter of the primary particles of the β-sialon phosphor. Primary particles are defined as single-crystal particles distinguished for each crystal orientation by identifying the crystal orientation of individual particles of the β-sialon phosphor by an electron backscatter diffraction image method. D.sub.50 and D.sub.10 are obtained by image analysis of the cross-sectional area of the primary particles.

In an image display element, a side surface of a nitride semiconductor is covered with a reflection material inclined so as to open in a light emitting direction, wavelength conversion units are surrounded by partition walls, and side surfaces of the partition walls facing the wavelength conversion units are reflection surfaces inclined so as to open in the light emitting direction.

Solid-state lighting devices including light-emitting diodes (LEDs), and more particularly binder materials for light-emitting devices are disclosed. A lumiphoric material for a light-emitting device may include lumiphoric particles embedded within a binder material. The lumiphoric material may be formed according to sol-gel chemistry techniques where a solution of binder precursors and lumiphoric particles is applied to a surface, dried to reduce liquid phase, and fired to form a hardened and dense lumiphoric material. The binder precursors may include metal oxide precursors that result in a metal oxide binder. In this manner, the lumiphoric material may have high thermal conductivity while also being adaptable for liquid-phase processing. In further embodiments, binder materials with or without lumiphoric particles may be utilized in place of conventional encapsulation materials for light-emitting devices.

A light emitting device for plant growth includes: a light emitting diode (LED) chip configured to emit a first light having a peak wavelength of 380 nm to 445 nm; and at least one wavelength conversion material configured to be excited by the first light, and convert the first light into a light having a peak wavelength of 500 nm to 610 nm, wherein a photosynthetic photon efficacy (PPE) of an output light emitted from the light emitting device is 3.10 μmol/J or more.