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There are two primary ways of producing white light-emitting diodes (WLEDs):
Which way is being used more in commercial applications, and why?
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@Shamtam have already commented that:
(1) the light from a typical while LED doesn't match the spectrum of the sunlight
(2) white LEDs are blue LEDs with additional phosphor
This is to expand on @Shamtam's comment.
Spectrum of a white LED showing blue light directly emitted by the GaN-based LED (peak at about 465 nm) and the more broadband emitted by the phosphor.
(source: Wikipedia)
Diagram of the spectrum a LED lamp (blue), a CFL (green) and an Incandescent (purple) superimposed the solar spectrum (yellow). Note that the energy used by each lamp is at least the area underneath its curve.
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Best Answer
You get more lumens per watt from phosphor converted LEDs. You can tune the color temperature with phosphor composition. Additionally, blue diode used in these diode is very stable with temperature variations so when the temperature of the die increases you do not loose much lumens.
RGB mixed white LEDs do not have high efficacy (lm/W). The color point is not stable because the red diode used in the chip is very temperature dependent. When the temperature of the die rises, the color point of the whole LED will shift towards cyan and the overall efficacy drops.
These two structures will have different specra and this it the cause for different efficacy figures. Eye has its peak sensitivity around 555nm. Take a look at V(λ) function:
and compare it to the spectrum of phosphor converted LED:
and RGB LED:
You can clearly see the PC white LED has much bigger overlap.
One more advantage of phosphor converter LED over RGB ones is color mixing. RGB diode will have three separate dies for generating red, green and blue light. If you use this type of LEDs in a lamp the overall light will be a mix of three colors originating from different places. This may give a color shadow effect which is sometimes undesired.