大量使用石化燃料,導致全球能源危機與環境劣化,各地政府提倡綠色環保能源,其中白光發光二極體(white light-emitting diodes)逐漸成熟並取代傳統照明。本實驗室利用組合式化學篩選白光發光二極體用螢光粉之新方法,並於組合式化學法中引入田口方法(Taguchi method),可提供評價構成新材料之每種元素以及各元素濃度之影響與貢獻率,此人工智慧方法,有效提高新材料發現的機率與針對性。近來,於高操作溫度具熱穩定性之螢光粉需求極大,本實驗室亦利用高壓氮氣反應爐合成新穎之氮化物與氮氧化物。此外,本實驗室並已建設完善之發光二極體封裝與量測設備。目前成果已獲多件我國專利、美國專利等,於國際期刊發表研究論文逾30篇,撰寫專書5本。此些研究成果與發明將有效協助我國產業突破國外公司之專利壟斷,使我國產品得以順利進入國際市場。
Global energy and environment are worsening on account of the consumption of fossil fuels, and the fact that, governments promote green energy, including white light emitting diodes to replace gradually traditional lighting. The combinatorial chemistry approach empowers discovery of novel functional materials that meet the requirements of white light emitting diodes with a new method of fluorescent powder, and the introduction of Taguchi method, may constitute a new material to provide evaluation of the concentration of each element. These approaches have enabled rapid synthesis and high-throughput screening of huge numbers of diverse compounds to uncover new functional and luminescent materials. Recently, high thermal stability nitride and oxy-nitride compounds were synthesized under a high purity nitrogen atmosphere by a gas pressure furnace. In addition, the package and measurement equipments of light-emitting diode have been building and perfecting in our laboratory. The results have been patented in China and the United States, and published more research papers in international journals and books for LED. The results of these studies with the invention will effectively assist foreign companies in our industrial breakthrough in the patent monopoly, so our products will be successfully used the international market.

Luminescence and Density functional theory (DFT) Calculation of
Undoped Nitridosilicate Phosphors for Light-emitting diodes
Chiao-Wen Yeh, Yun-Ping Liu, Zhi Ren Xiao, Yin-Kuo Wang, Shu-Fen Hu and Ru-Shi Liu
J. Mater. Chem.2012, 22, 5828-5834. [PDF]
Advances in Phosphors for Light-Emitting Diodes
Chun Che Lin and Ru-Shi Liu
J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2011, 2, 1268-1227(Perspective Article) [PDF]
An Intelligent Approach to the Discovery of Luminescent Mateials Using a Combinational Approach Combined with Taguchi Methodology
Lei Chen, Cheng-I Chu, Kuo-Ju Chen, Po-Yuan Chen, Shu-Fen Hu and Ru-Shi Liu
Luminescence 2011, 26, 229-238. (Special Feature Article) [PDF]
Cation-size-mismatch Tuning of Photoluminescence in Oxynitride Phosphors
Wei-Ting Chen, Hwo-Shuenn Sheu, Ru-Shi Liu, and J. Paul Attfield
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2012, 134, 8022-8025. [PDF]
Controlling The Activator Site To Tune Europium Valence in Oxyfluoride Phosphors
Kuan-Wei Huang, Wei-Ting Chen, Cheng-I Chu, Shu-Fen Hu, Hwo-Shuenn Sheu,
Bing-Ming Cheng, Jin-Ming Chen, and Ru-Shi Liu
Chem. Mater. 2012, 24, 2220-2227. [PDF]
The Origin of Thermal Degradation in Sr2-xSi5N8:Eux Phosphors in air
for Light-emitting Diodes
Chiao-Wen Yeh, Wei-Ting Chen, Ru-Shi Liu, Shu-Fen Hu, Hwo-Shuenn Sheu, Jin-Ming Chen, and Hubertus T. Hintzen
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 134, 14108-14117. [PDF]
Selected publications:

Combinatorial chemistry approach to searching phosphors for white light-emitting diodes in (Gd-Y-Bi-Eu)VO4 quaternary system
Lei Chen, Kuo-Ju Chen, Shu-Fen Hu, and Ru-Shi Liu
J. Mater. Chem. 2011, 21, 3677–3685. [PDF]
Versatile Phosphate Phosphors ABPO4 in White Light-Emitting Diodes: Collocated Characteristic Analysis and Theoretical Calculations
Chun Che Lin, Zhi Ren Xiao, Guang-Yu Guo, Ting-Shan Chan and Ru-Shi Liu
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2010, 132, 3020–3028. [PDF]
Combinatorial Approach to the Development of a Single Mass
YVO4:Bi3+,Eu3+ Phosphor with Red and Green Dual Colors for High
Color Rendering White Light-Emitting Diodes
Lei Chen, Kuo-Ju Chen, Chun Che Lin, Cheng-I Chu, Shu-Fen Hu,
Min-Hung Lee and Ru-Shi Liu
J. Comb. Chem. 2010, 12, 587–594. [PDF]
Highly Stable Red Oxynitride β-SiAlON:Pr3+ Phosphor
for Light-emitting Diodes
Tzu-Chen Liu, Bing-Ming Cheng, Shu-Fen Hu, and Ru-Shi Liu
Chem. Mater. 2011, 23, 3698-3705. [PDF]
Synthesis, Crystal Structure, and Luminescence Properties of a Novel Green-Yellow Emitting Phosphor LiZn1-xPO4:Mnx for Light Emitting Diodes
Ting-Shan Chan, Ru-Shi Liu and Ivan Baginskiy
Chem. Mater. 2008, 20 (4), 1215-1217. [PDF]