Full spectrum white light emitting devices

Abstract

A full spectrum white light emitting device may include a broadband solid-state excitation source for generating broadband excitation light with a dominant wavelength from about 420 nm to about 480 nm and a full width at half maximum intensity greater than about 25 nm; and a narrowband red photoluminescence material with an emission peak wavelength from about 620 nm to about 640 nm and a full width at half maximum emission intensity of less than about 30 nm; where the device has an efficacy of at least 130 lm/W and generates white light with a CRI Ra≥90, and where over a wavelength range from about 430 nm to about 520 nm, a maximum percentage intensity deviation of the white light from the intensity of light of a black-body curve or CIE Standard Illuminant D of the same Correlated Color Temperature is less than about 50%.